Case ID: iowa_12/html/0183-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wright, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lyon v. Thompson et al.
    
    1. Service or notice. A return showing a service of notice, by leaving a copy at defendant’s usual place of residence, should show that the person to whom the copy was delivered, was a member of the family.
    
      Appeal from Johnson District Court.
    
    Wednesday, October 16.
    The facts appear in the opinion of the court.
    
      Clarice &; Davis for the appellant.
    The return of the sheriff to the original notice shows no legal service upon Thompson. It does not show that Mrs. Ann Thompson, with whom the copy was left, was a member of the family of said Thompson. The statute requires this, Code of 1851, § 1721. See also, Converse, Administrator v. Warren, 4 Iowa 158 ; Pilkey v. Gleason, 1 lb. 85; Davis v. Burt etal., 7 lb. 56; Neally v. Redman, 5 lb. 387. For this error the decree must be reversed, as to Thompson, and we think, as to all the defendants.
    
      McKay &¡ Bradley for the appellee.
   Wright, J.

Judgment by default. The point made in this court is, that Thompson, one of tho defendants, was not served with notice of the pendency of the action. The sheriff’s return as to him is: “ Served by leaving a copy of this notice with Mrs. Ann Thompson, the mother of J. W. Thompson, at his usual place of abode, she being more than fourteen years of age, and by reading this notice to her, and informing her of its contents; said J. W. Thompson not being'found in my county. January 25th, 1860.”

This return is defective in not showing that Ann Thompson was a member of the family of the said J. W. Thompson, or of that family where he had his residence. (Code 1851, § 1721.)

The judgment is reversed as to Thompson, and affirmed as to the other defendants.