Hackleman v. Geise

WICKERSHAM, District Judge.

On September 19,1900, the plaintiff began a suit in the Commissioner’s Court in Nome precinct to recover from McPhee & Hamilton a balance of $450 alleged to be due him for hay and grain sold the defendants. The summons in that case was made returnable on September 27th, and on that day the defendants filed their answer with the commissioner, denying every material allegation of the complaint. The record does not disclose any action of the justice on the return day — neither an appearance, nor trial, nor an adjournment to another time. The transcript of the justice’s…