Section 11-11-55 - Receipt of papers and entry of cause

The clerk to whom the papers may be transmitted shall open the package and compare the papers with the descriptive list, and shall give the person delivering the same, if demanded, a receipt therefor. He shall then enter the cause on his docket as if it had been commenced in the court of which he is clerk, and issue subpoena for witnesses as in other cases.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 59, art. 2 (5); 1857, ch. 61, art. 124; 1871, § 721; 1880, § 1504; 1892, § 657; 1906, § 714; Hemingway's 1917, § 493; 1930, § 502; 1942, § 1445.