Greenwaldt v. May

The appellee brought this suit to enjoin the collection of an execution issued by a justice of the peace, and obtained a perpetual injunction.

The facts as they appear in the special finding may be thus summarized: The appellee sued out a capias ad respondendum against the appellant, on which the latter was arrested and brought before the justice of the peace by whom the writ was issued. Various intermediate steps were taken in the case, but it is not important to notice them in detail. On the 24th day of September, 1887, the appellant paid the claim on which the action wherein the writ was…