Case ID: pa-just-l-rep_1/html/0112-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McDonald and McDonald to Use, etc. v. the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company.
    The record of the Justice must show that the summons has been served in accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 9, 1901.
    Service of Summons.
    No. 81, December Term, 1901, C. P. Beaver County, Certiorari to J. T. Bell, J. P., of Planover township.
    Buchanan and McConnell for The Central District and Printing Telegraph Co., Plaintiffs in Error.
    The record of the Justice showed:
    “Served personally on Wm. L. Long, agent for the company at New Sheffield, Pa., by making known to him.the contents thereof and delivering to him a true and attested copy of the same, on oath of constable.”
    Excepted to as an insufficient service.
   ORDER.

Now January 11, 1902, the judgment of the Justice is reversed and set aside for the reason that the return of the service of the summons by the constable is inadequate under the Act of 1901.

Reported by Lawrence M. Sebring, Esq.,

Beaver, Pa.