If the claim be interposed in a court of a justice of the peace, on filing the affidavit and bond, or the affidavit, if a bond be not given, the justice shall fix a day for the trial, and give notice thereof to the parties.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 50, art. 11 (5); 1857, ch. 58, art. 31; 1871, § 1338; 1880, § 2227; 1892, § 4434; 1906, § 4999; Hemingway's 1917, § 3273; 1930, § 3433; 1942, § 1030.
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