Thompson v. Mankin

In this ease it appears that Joseph Maxwell, as clerk of Arkansas circuit court, on the 17th day of August, 1861, issued a writ of summons against the plaintiff in error, which, on the 3d of October following, was read to him by Henry Stephens, as sheriff, and it required him to appear at the circuit court of said county in November, 1861, to answer the complaint of said Mankin. Then follows an opening order of the circuit court of said county, on the 13th of October, 1865, and a judgment against Thompson by default. ' .

The only question presented, is, whether or not Thompson, upon these…