Case ID: white-w_1/html/0038-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Scott & Sparrow v. John A. Watts.
    (No. 1111, Op. Book No. 3, p. 447.)
    Error from Karnes County.
    January 26, 1881.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 88. Service of citation by military officer. A defendant was served with citation by a lieutenant of state troops, and upon such service judgment by default was rendered. Held, that the officer had’ no authority to serve civil process, and the service being a nullity, the judgment by default was set aside.

§89. Defective citation. A citation which cited the defendant to appear in the year 187, cited him to appear at an impossible date, and was held to be fatally defective, and a judgment by default rendered thereon was set aside.

Reversed and remanded.