Case Name: Curry v. The State, for Use of Rhine, Drainage Commissioner
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1892-04-30
Citations: 131 Ind. 439
Docket Number: No. 16,404
Parties: Curry v. The State, for Use of Rhine, Drainage Commissioner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 131
Pages: 439–440

Head Matter:
No. 16,404.
Curry v. The State, for Use of Rhine, Drainage Commissioner.
Notice. — Sufficiency of Proof of Publication. — Tlie proof of publication is sufficient when the affidavit of the publisher of the newspaper in which the notice was published states that “the notice was duly published in said paper for three weeks consecutively, the first of which publications was on the 11th of September, 1890, and the last on the 25th day of September, 1890. The reasonable and fair construction of the affidavit is that the first and third publications were on the first and last days mentioned, and the second on an intervening day.
Filed April 30, 1892.
From the Blackford Circuit Court.
R. S. Gregory, A. C. Silverburg and J. N. Templer, for appellant.
W. H. Carroll, G. Dean, B. G. Shinn and E. Pierce, for appellee.

Opinion:
Elliott, C. J.
The appellant entered a special appearance and moved to quash " the proof of publication." Assuming that the motion properly presents the proposition argued by counsel, which is that the notice was not published the requisite length of time, we shall consider and decide the question argued, but in doing this we do not mean to be understood as deciding that it is well presented. The affidavit of the publisher of the newspaper in which the notice was published states that " the notice was duly published in said paper for three weeks consecutively, the first of which publications was on the 11th day of September, 1890, and the last on the 25th day of September, 1890." The statement of the publisher that the notice was published three weeks consecutively, repels the assumption that there were but two insertions of the notice in the newspaper. The reasonable and fair construction of the affidavit is that the first publication was on the day first named, the third publication on the day last named, and the second on a day intervening between the first and last dates named in the affidavit. The decisions require this construction and sustain the sufficiency of the notice. Security Co., etc., v. Arbuckle, 123 Ind. 518; Horn v. Indianapolis Nat'l Bank, 125 Ind. 381.
The other questions in the case are fully disposed of by the decision in the case of Racer v. State, etc., ante, p. 393.
Judgment affirmed.'