Webster Wagon Co. v. Home Insurance

Statement of the case by

G-R.EEN, Judge:

On July 7, 1882, The W ebster Wagon Company brought an action of assumpsit in the municipal court of Wheeling against the Home Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, and inthesummons issued the damages were laid at $2,000.00. The summons was in proper form and is signed by the clerk of said court and addressed to the sergeant of the city of Wheeling. The following is his return on said summons:

“I served the within writ within the city of Wheeling as to the Home Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, by delivering a copy thereof to William F. Peterson, its…