24 Conn. 331 | Conn. | 1856
The judgment of the superior court must be reversed for the want of jurisdiction. The suit was commenced in a justice court, where a plea in abatement was filed, for defective service. The plea, not being signed, it was, for that cause, specially demurred to. Now, without meaning to decide whether the plea in abatement was good or bad, or whether the objection should not have been raised, on the reception of the plea, rather than by demurring to it, we are satisfied that there is error in this record.
The justice overruled the plea in abatement, and ordered further answer to be made, but the defendant, not complying with the order, he gave judgment for damages and costs,
There is manifest error.
In this opinion, the other judges, Storrs and Hinman, concurred.
Judgment reversed.