Case Name: JACOB BARTH vs. LIPPMAN MARCUSE
Court: Kent Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1881-11-21
Citations: 1 Howell N.P. 11
Docket Number: 
Parties: JACOB BARTH vs. LIPPMAN MARCUSE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Michigan nisi prius cases, decided by the state and federal courts in Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 11–12

Head Matter:
Kent Circuit.
JACOB BARTH vs. LIPPMAN MARCUSE.
Motion, and not Plea, the proper Remedy in Practice.
Demurrer to plea in abatement.
Defendant pleaded in abatement that he was not a resident of Kent County, but was decoyed within it by trick and fraud, for the purpose of enabling the officer to serve the summons upon him.
Plaintiff demurred.
Decision rendered November 21, 1881.

Opinion:
The Court,
Hoyt J.,
sustained the demurrer, and held that a motion to quash was the proper remedy, and the defect in the summons, if any, could not be taken advantage of by plea in abatement.
Jones vs. Nelson, 51 Ala., 471.
Barrill's Practice, 107.
Taggert, Stone & Earle for plaintiff.
Simonds, Fletcher & Wolf for defendant.
The practice of this Court is not a matter of plea.
1 Chitty's Pleadings, 502, 523.
Nichols vs. Nichols, 9 Wend., 263.
Paul vs. Graves, 5 Wend., 96.
No cases are found in the books where writs and the service thereof, have been set aside in any other way than by motion. This is settled practice.
Baker vs. Wales, 45 How. Prac., 137.
Carpenter vs. Spooner, 2 Sanf. 717.