57 Miss. 588 | Miss. | 1880
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff sued out a writ of replevin in Yicksburg, Warren County, for a mule which was there, and was seized under the writ, and the defendant was summoned there to answer the action. He appeared, and made affidavit that he was a resident of Hinds County, at the time of the suing out of the writ, and upon this affidavit moved to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction in the court in Warren County. The writ was issued by and returnable before a justice of the peace in Yicks-burg. The motion to dismiss was denied by the justice of the peace, but on appeal to the Circuit Court a motion to dismiss the case because the justice had no jurisdiction was sustained.
The motion was improperly sustained. The affidavit does not show that the defendant was a “ freeholder or householder” of Hinds County, and, if neither, he might be sued, wherever found in any action. But if he was a freeholder and householder, resident in Hinds County, it was the right of the plaintiff to sue out the writ of replevin for the mule in Yicksburg, where it was at the time, and the seizure of the mule there gave the justice of the peace of that district jurisdiction of tbe
Judgment reversed and cause remanded.