Werner v. Evans

This is a suit agáinst appellants, doing an express and storage business, to recover for a valise and contents, said to have been lost while in their hands for conveyance. The suit was originally brought before a justice of the peace, by whom judgment was entered against the only one of appellants who was then served with process. Upon appeal from that judgment the Circuit Court issued a summons which was served upon the other defendant. Both appellants being thus in court, appellee’s appearance was entered, and upon notice in the usual form, the case was placed upon the short cause calendar,…