Supreme Court of Missouri June 15, 1838 (Little v. Little)

Edwards, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit before a justice of the peace, in which .George M. Little was plaintiff, and James M. Little defendant, commenced upon a judgment obtained some .years before. The ,process was a scire fucias,- running in the following words: “State of Missouri, county of St. Louis, ss. To the constable of St.