Case Name: Lewis and Spurlock vs. The State Bank
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1842-07
Citations: 4 Ark. 443
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lewis and Spurlock vs. The State Bank.
Judges: 
Reporter: Arkansas Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 443–444

Head Matter:
Lewis and Spurlock vs. The State Bank.
A return on a summons, that it was executed on the defendants by their acknowledging service of the same, shows a good service.
This was an action of debt, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in September, 1841, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the Circuit Judges. The Bank sued Lewis, Spurlock, and Cherry, on a note for f 120, and a writ issued to Crittenden county, on which the sheriff returned, that he executed it onLewis and Spurlock, by their acknowledging service of it. Discontinued as to Cherry, and judgment by default against Lewis and Spurlock, for $>120 debt, and interest at ten per cent., from maturity of the nóte till paid.
W. & E. Cummins, for th^ plaintiffs in error.
Sections 13 and 20, of Chap. 146, Rev. St., settle and prescribe the mode of service of process; and there exists no mode except that prescribed by the statute. The question has been so fully discussed by this Court, that no argument is necessary, or even proper. The following cases are referred to: Dawson el al. vs. State Bank, 3 Ark. Rep. 505; Desha vs. Baker et al., 3 Ark. Rep. 509; Rose vs. Ford, 2 Ark. Rep. 26; Gil-breath vs. Kuykendall, 1 Ark. Rep. 50; &c. The service cannot be regarded as valid.
Hempstead & Johnson, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Dickinson, J.
AH the errors assigned in this case, with the exception of the one to the service of the writ, have been previously decided by this Court. The return is, "executed the within named writ on the defendants, by their acknowledging service of the same." We deem this a valid service. What is it the parties acknowledge? It is the service of the writ, which is tantamount to the reading or delivering a cópy, as prescribed by statute.
Judgment affirmed.