Hazard v. Wason
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a judgment. The bill of exceptions and a copy of the pleadings and docket entries showed the following facts. The action was brought to recover the amount of a judgment obtained by the plaintiffs against the defendant in another State.
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Contract on a judgment. The bill of exceptions and a copy of the pleadings and docket entries showed the following facts. The action was brought to recover the amount of a judgment obtained by the plaintiffs against the defendant in another State. The writ, which described both the plaintiff and the defendant as residents of that State, was made returnable in the Superior Court for Hampden County, and, after an attachment of property belonging to the defendant situate in that county was made thereon, was there entered in April, 1889. In May, 1889, before service on the defendant or any…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
We do not perceive why the Superior Court sitting in Suffolk County had not acquired full jurisdiction of this action after it had been transferred there from Hampden County. Property of the defendant had been attached in Hampden County, and a notice was issued by the court in Suffolk County to the defendant, who had then and there appeared and answered to the merits of the cause. The action was transitory, and it was competent for the Superior Court, as a court of general jurisdiction, to try the same in any county of the State, unless objection was seasonably made thereto. The provisions of…
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