90 Mo. 74 | Mo. | 1886
This is a proceeding by garnishment. An execution was issued by a justice of the peace on a judgment by default in favor of plaintiffs against Isaac W. Salisbury, and placed in the hands of a constable who summoned the defendant, Emma Evans, and her husband as garnishees. They appeared and filed answer on which an issue was made, on the trial of which in the circuit court, where it had been taken by appeal, plaintiff offered in evidence the justice’s record and docket entry of the judgment recovered by plaintiffs against said Salisbury, and upon which the garnishment proceedings were founded. This evidence was objected to-on the ground that it did not show service of the ■summons ten days before the judgment by default was rendered. The objection was sustained and thereupon the'plaintiffs offered, and the court received in evidence the original summons issued in the case with the return of service endorsed thereon, which service was sworn to on the nineteenth day of April, 1882, and thereupon the plaintiffs renewed their offer to read the record and docket entries of the judgment, which the court refused to allow, on defendant’s objection that it did show service of the summons ten days before the judgment was rendered.
This action of the court is assigned for error. It appears from the record before us that the summons was issued on the eighteenth of April, 1882, made returnable on the twenty-eighth of April, 1882, and the judgment by default was taken on the twenty-eighth of April,