Case Name: Biddle v. Allender et al.
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1863-01-06
Citations: 14 Iowa 410
Docket Number: 
Parties: Biddle v. Allender et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 410–411

Head Matter:
Biddle v. Allender et al.
1, Jurisdiction op justice. The jurisdiction of a justice of the peace in attachment and replevin is co-extensive with his county. (Leversee v. Reynolds, 13 Iowa, 310.)
Appeal from Henry District Court.
Tuesday, January 6, 1863.
Replevin. The justice before whom the cause was tried resided in one'township, while the parties resided in others. The property replevied was also found in another. On defendants” motion the cause was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. This judgment was affirmed in the District Court, and the plaintiff appeals.
L. 6s. Palmer for the appellants.
Clarke & Poolittle for the appellee.

Opinion:
Wright, J.
The error assigned relates to the action of the District Court in affirming the judgment of the justice, who dismissed plaintiff's case for want of jurisdiction. Appellees claim there were certain defects in plaintiff's petition, and in the bond filed by plaintiff to procure his writ of replevin; and that for these reasons the justice may have dismissed the case. To these positions it is a sufficient answer, that no such objections were made in the motion to dismiss, and that the justice made his ruling expressly upon the ground that he was an officer in one township, while the defendants resided, and the property was found in another.
This judgment being affirmed, the case involves simply the construction of § 3853 of the Revision of 1860. By reference to the case of Leversee v. Reynolds, 13 Iowa, 310, it will be found, that in a suit commenced by attachment under the -precise circumstances of this case, we held the justice had jurisdiction; that his jurisdiction was co-extensive with his county. Actions of replevin and suits commenced by attachment are included in the same provision, and following the above cases, the judgment below is
Reversed.