Case ID: iowa_12/html/0511-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Baldwin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Williams v. Sill & Town.
    1. Service or notice. Under the Code of 1851, it was not necessary to show in the return on an original notice, the place where it was served.
    2. Practice. Objections to the sufficiency of a petition can not be taken for the first time in the Supreme Court.
    
      Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court.
    
    Saturday, December 21.
    ACTION on a bill of exchange. The notice was served by a person who was not a party to the action. Judgment by default and the defendant appeals.
    
      Douglass Doss for the appellant.
    
      Street and Crawford for the appellee.
   Baldwin, J.

Judgment by default in the District Court, and defendant appeals.

The service of the original notice was sufficiently complete to give the court jurisdiction. The objection is, that it fails to show where or in what county it was made. This action was commenced prior to the taking effect of the Revision, and it was not necessary for the return to show where service was made. If served personally, it was sufficient to bring the person into court, and if sued in the wrong county, the defendant had his statutory remedy.

The court having obtained jurisdiction, the objections made to the sufficiency of the petition should have been made in the court below, and can not be raised for the first time in this court. See Davis v. Burt, 7 Iowa 56, see also Ruddick v. Patterson, 103.

Judgment Affirmed.