Langtry v. Wayne Circuit Judges

Eelator asks to have certain proceedings set aside for want of jurisdiction in a justice to render judgment against her on the default which was entered.

Suit was brought against her before a justice of Wayne county by attachment. The ground of the attachment was her non-residence, and no question is made on the sufficiency of the affidavit. The writ is a statutory one, and the form is given in section 6839, How. Stat. It is upon this that the controversy arises.

The statute declares as follows:

“Every attachment shall state the amount claimed by the plaintiff, and shall command any constable of…