Case Name: LUTHI BROS. v. STEWART & WARD
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1926-01-11
Citations: 4 Ohio Law Abs. 146
Docket Number: No. 19555
Parties: LUTHI BROS. v. STEWART & WARD
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 4
Pages: 146–146

Head Matter:
LUTHI BROS. v. STEWART & WARD
No. 19555.
Supreme Court
Dock. Jan. 11, 1926;
4 Abs. 56.
Attorneys — D. D. Dubois for Luthi Bros.; Cooper, Belt, Cooper & Witten, for Stewart & Ward; all of Bellaire.

Opinion:
Stewart and Ward, a partnership, brought the original action against Luthi Brothers, under the Bulk Sales Act.
The sheriff made a mistake in making his copy of the summons which he served on Elmer Luthi, in designating Luthi Bros, as a coporation instead of a partnership. The Belmont Common Pleas set aside the service on motion of Elmer Luthi, subsequent to the 90 day period within which such an action must be brought. Five months after this service was set aside an alias summons was issued, which was attacked under 11231 GC., which provides:
"Within the meaning of this chapter, an attempt to commence an action shall be deemed to be equivalent to its commencement, when the party diligently endeavors to procure a service, if such attempt be followed by service, within sixty days."
The Common Pleas held the second service to be good and the Appeals held the first service to be good, wholly on the strength of two affidavits filed on the hearing of the original motion, no petition in error or Bill of Exceptions having been filed.
Luthi Brothers here contend:
1. That the order of the Common Pleas in sustaining the motion to quash service was a final order, since more than 60 days had elapsed since the first attempted service of summons.
2. That the Court of Appeals was without authority to set aside said order when no petition or cross-petition in error had been filed to the sustaining of said motion.
3. That errors are presumed to be waived where not specifically assigned in a petition in error.
4. That the court will not look beyond the assignment made in the petition in error, unless there is a general assignment.