Justice Court v. People Ex Rel. Harvey

Since, as the court opinion states, defendants were residents of a precinct other than the one in which they were sued, and that the cause did not accrue in the precinct of action, defendants, as I think, rightly ignored the summons of the justice and thereby brought themselves within the doctrine of Walker v. People ex rel., 87 Colo. 178, 285 Pac. 1104, and the right to invoke it, *294as they did, precisely, as the learned trial judge determined. By any other course, however, they might have tried to save the point by a limited appearance, defendants would have subjected themselves to the hazard…