Blakeslee v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for an injunction against tlie collection of a judgment at law obtained by tlie respondent against tlie plaintiff; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County.
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Petition for an injunction against tlie collection of a judgment at law obtained by tlie respondent against tlie plaintiff; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The petition alleged that on the 6th day of September, 1875, the petitioner was insane, and confined as an insane person in the Retreat for the Insane at the city of Hartford, and that at that time the respondent brought an action at law against him before a justice of the peace in Waterbury in New Haven County, where the respondent then resided, in which no other service was made upon him than by the officer leaving an…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The respondent brought his action against the petitioner returnable before a justice of the peace. The only service was by leaving a copy of the process at the petitioner’s place of residence in Thomaston. At that time he was confined in the Retreat for the Insane in Hartford; and neither he, nor any one in his behalf, received any notice of the pendency of the suit, and no one appeared to defend. The l'espondent obtained a i judgment for one hundred dollars damages, and for fifteen dollars and thirty-seven cents costs of .suit, on which execution issued. The petitioner obtained *193a decree in…
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