State ex rel. Pacific Coast Steamship Co. v. Superior Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, J.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus requiring the superior court of Jefferson county and the judge thereof to proceed to take cognizance of an appeal taken by the relator as defendant in an action commenced in the justice’s court in said county, before J. A. Wood, Esq., a justice of the peace in which action the People’s Market was plaintiff.

It appears from the record that complaint and notice were personally served upon the defendant in the *549action prosecuted in the justice’s court; that upon the return day, the defendant therein by…