Sweet v. Gibson

This is a direct proceeding attacking the validity of a judgment rendered in an attachment case commenced in the circuit court. There was no personal service of the original writ, but the ordinary notice in an attachment case was published for the purpose of obtaining substituted service. Defendant appeared specially, and a motion was made to set aside the service and quash the writ, which motion was overruled. The case then proceeded to judgment by default, and the case was at once brought here by writ of error. Several interesting questions are presented, but as one of them, in our…