Babbitt v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This suit was brought by Parker P. Clark, George H. Clark, Elijah F. Clark, and George P. Burnett, the appellees, citizens of New York, in the Court of Common Pleas of Lucas County, Ohio, against Albert T. Babbitt, the appellant, *a citizen of Wyoming Territory. By the statutes of Ohio regulating practice and pleadings in the courts of that State, a civil action is commenced by filing a petition in the office of the clerk of the proper court, and causing a summons to be issued thereon. Rev. Stat., Ohio (1880), sect. 5035. The summons is ordinarily returnable the second Monday after its date.…
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