Case Name: Gardner, vs. Peckham
Court: Jackson County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1870-01
Citations: 1 Mich. N.P. R. 203
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gardner, vs. Peckham.
Judges: 
Reporter: The Michigan Nisi Prius Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 203–204

Head Matter:
Gardner, vs. Peckham.
A Writ of Replevin may be made returnable od any return day within thiee months of its teste.
Jackson Circuit,
January 1870.
Motion to quash a writ of replevin and set aside the proceedings.
The writ was tested November 3d, 1869, and made returnable the first Tuesday in January, 1870. ' The regular term of the Circuit Court commenced the fourth Tuesday in November, so that not only a regular term, but also the first Tuesday in December (a return day,) intervened between the teste and return of the writ, which was’ the ground upon which this motion to quash ^vas made.
J, I). Conely, for Plaintiff.
W.E. Gibson, for Defendant.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Higby, Judge.
By the statute,C. L. § 5010, writs of replevin must be made returnable on some day on which writs in personal actions may be made returnable.
By rule 13, all original writs (except capias) may be made returnable on the first Tuesday of any month, and also on any day in term ; but shall not be made returnable beyond three months from their date, unless more than that time intervenes, before the next term, and in such cáse, the writ shall be returnable on or before the first day of the next term.
This is the only limitation in this State ot the time for return of original writs. Although the party causing the writ to be issued may have it made returnable on the first Tuesday in each month or on any day in term. Yet it is not obligatory upon him to make it returnable on the first return day, provided no more than three months intervenes between the time of issuing the writ and the return day. I can give no other reasonable construction to the last clause of the rule — as the time between the issuing and return of this writ was less than three months, and it was made returnable on a regular return day — the motion must be denied.