Case ID: ohio_6/html/0543-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Lane", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Miami Exporting Co. v. S. J. Brown and J. H. Looker.
    A judgment in favor of the Miami Exporting Company, upon a short notice, according to their charter, is coram, nonjudice and void, unless the record show a notice regularly made and served.
    This cause was adjourned from Hamilton county. It was a scire facias to revive a judgment in the Hamilton common pleas in favor of the plaintiffs. The scire facias was original in the common pleas, and removed hereby appeal; plea, nul tiel record. The transcript of the record produced showed that the judgment had been rendered upon a notice according to a provision of the company charter. This notice was set out. It had no signature, and the record contained no proof of its service on the defendants, or either of them.
    O. M. Spencer and Farran, for plaintiff.
    Fox, for defendants.
   Judge Lane

stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court, deciding that the authority to take jurisdiction by the common pleas, was dependent upon a notice regularly issued and served in due time upon the defendants. Both these facts must appear in the record as the foundation of the jurisdiction. If they do not thus appear, the judgment is coram non judice. Such being the state of this case, judgment was given for the defendants.