Lithuanian Brotherhelp Society St. Wicentus v. Tunila
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the enforcement of a judgment of a justice of the peace in favor of the defendant, and to secure its annulment, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Welch, J., on demurrer to the complaint; the'■court overruled the demurrer and rendered judgment for the plan tiff, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The plaintiff is a voluntary association, of which the defendant is a member.
The complaint alleges substantially these facts :—
The defendant brought an action against this plaintiff to recover alleged “sick benefits,” returnable before a justice of the peace on the 12th of June, 1907, the complaint in which was not otherwise served than by leaving, on the 7th of said June, an attested copy thereof at the place of abode of one Petrofski, the secretary of the society, and obtained judgment therein by default, on said return day, for $50 damages and $5.76 costs, which he threatens to enforce.
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