Harris v. Knapp

Knapp and Knapp sued Harris before a justice of the peace in Wayne township, Wayne county, Indiana.

The suit was duly commenced by capias. Harris was found and arrested in Wayne county, taken before the justice, who issued',the writ, where he obtained a continuance of his cause for over a month. At the appointed time he appeared, and answered, that the affidavit upon which, the capias issued, was *199not true, &c. This answer was held bad, both before the justice and on appeal in the Circuit Court, and in both Courts there was a trial of the merits of the case, and judgment for the plaintiffs.

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