Kirk v. Graham

The appellee, Graham, sued the appellant before a Justice of the Peace, on a note for six dollars. What was done in the Justice's Court does not appear, further than the issuance of the summons by the Justice of the Peace, and the return of the Sheriff, defendant not found. The appellee prepared his petition to the District Judge, in which he alleges that he had brought suit before the Justice against the appel*317lant, and that a judgment had been rendered against bim, petitioner, for cost, amounting to dollars; that great injustice was done him; and that he did not attend the trial, before the…