Case ID: or_254/html/0130-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted on record and appellant’s brief April 1, reversed;
    decree set aside September 10, 1969
    KELSO, Respondent, v. KELSO, Appellant.
    
    458 P2d 448
    Van Natta & Petersen, St. Helens, for appellant.
    No appearance made by the respondent.
    Before Perry, Chief Justice, and McAllister, Sloan, O’Connell, Goodwin, Denecke, and Holman, Justices.
   PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff Helen N. Kelso brought this suit for a divorce against the defendant Clarence W. Kelso. A decree was entered granting the divorce and other relief to the plaintiff. From the decree entered the defendant appeals.

Numerous assignments of error are made by the defendant, but only one need be considered.'

The record fails to disclose any service of summons upon the district attorney or a waiver of service.

This court has on numerous occasions held that a circuit court is without jurisdiction “to hear or determine any suit for divorce” if service of summons upon the district attorney has not been made as provided in ORS 107.040. Swint v. Swint, 238 Or 367, 395 P2d 114.

The decree is set aside and the cause reversed.