Case Name: Cole et ux. v. Allen
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1875-11
Citations: 51 Ind. 122
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cole et ux. v. Allen.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 51
Pages: 122–124

Head Matter:
Cole et ux. v. Allen.
Record . — Default.—Summons.—-Where, on an appeal from a judgment taken by default, the action of the court in overruling a motion to set aside the default for want of a legal summons and proper service thereof is presented, and the summons does not appear in the record, the judgment will be reversed.
Supreme Court. — Rehearing.—The supreme court will not grant a rehearing to enable a party to have the record corrected by means of a certiorari. Summons. — Service out of State. — Affidavit.—-When a summons has been personally served out of the State, it must be shown by affidavit that the person served is the identical person named in the action or proceeding; and it is not sufficient to show by affidavit that the person served acknowledged himself to be such identical person.
From the Marion Superior Court.
J. E. McDonald, J. M. Butler, F. B. McDonald and G. O. Butler, for appellants.
W. Wallace, for appellee.

Opinion:
Downey, J.
Action by the appellee against the appellants to foreclose a mortgage, and judgment by default for the plaintiff in rmn only. The question presented arose out of a motion in special term of the superior court to set aside the default and judgment for want of legal summons and proper service thereof, the motion having been overruled in special term and this action affirmed in the general term. The summons, it is stated, was -issued to the sheriff of Marion county, Indiana, and served personally on the defendants, in Boston, in the State of Massachusetts. The record shows that the summons was served on the 27th day of January,' -1874, and the judgment rendered on the 7th day of March, 1874. There is nothing in the record to show when the summons required the defendants to appear. The summons is not in the record. It should appear in the record, when the judgment is by default. Miles v. Buchanan, 36 Ind. 490; Cochnower v. Cochnower, 27 Ind. 253; The New Albany, etc., R. R. Co. v. Welsh, 9 Ind. 479; 2 G. & H. 273, sec. 559.
The judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded to the general term, with instructions to reverse the judgment at special term, and remand the cause for further proceedings.