Peet v. Fowler

HODTAND, District Judge.

It is a well-established principle of law that parties to a suit, for the sake of public justice, are privileged from the service of process upon them in coming to, attending upon, and returning from the court, or as it is usually termed, eundo, mo-rando, et redeundo. This is an immunity of all persons under certain circumstances, on the principle that, where the law requires any duty of the citizen, it will protect him in the discharge of that duty, and the privilege extends to the service of a summons as well as a capias. The cases in point are collected in Troubat &…