Case Name: LYON COUNTY, Appellant, v. WASHOE COUNTY, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Nevada
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Decision Date: 1873-01
Citations: 8 Nev. 177
Docket Number: 
Parties: LYON COUNTY, Appellant, v. WASHOE COUNTY, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Nevada Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 177–178

Head Matter:
LYON COUNTY, Appellant, v. WASHOE COUNTY, Respondent.
Service by Mail, when Complete. Where an affidavit of service of copy of notice of appeal by mail stated that it was deposited in the post-office at Dayton on a certain day, directed to the proper person to be served at Carson and postage paid : Held, that the service, if proved at all, was a service on the day of such deposit.
Notice oe Appeal must be Piled before Copy Served. To render an appeal effectual the filing of the notice of appeal must precede or be cotemporaneous with the service of the copy: otherwise that which purports to be a copy fails as such for want of an original to support it.
Appeal from 'the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Humboldt County.
This was an action to obtain a decree declaring certain territory near the north-east corner of Storey County within the boundaries of the plaintiff, Lyon County, and not within the boundaries of the defendant, Washoe County. The case was tried in the court below before a jury, which returned a verdict for defendant. Judgment was accordingly entered to the effect that the disputed territory was within the limits and subject to the jurisdiction of Washoe County, and for $2798 85 costs.
The plaintiff gave notice of appeal as stated in the opinion. The defendant moved to dismiss.
Robert M. Olarlce, for Respondent.
John Powell, Jr., for A-ppellant.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Belknap, J.:
The respondent moves to dismiss the appeal. One of the reasons assigned for the motion is that the copy of the notice of appeal was served before the notice of appeal was filed with the clerk of the district court.
The only evidence of service of a copy of tbe notice of appeal is contained in tbe following affidavit of Jobn Powell, Jr.: "-that on Sunday, June 18tb, 1871, according to bis best recollection and belief, be deposited at tbe post-office at Dayton, Nevada, a copy of said notice of appeal and a copy of said proposed statement on appeal, directed to R. M. Clarke, Esq., attorney, etc., Carson, Nevada, and paid tbe postage thereon. " If any service is proven by this affidavit it is on June 18, 1871. Tbe transcript shows that tbe notice of appeal was filed June 19, 1871. It is well settled, that to render an appeal effectual tbe filing of tbe notice of appeal must precede or be eotemporaneous with tbe service of tbe copy: otherwise that which purports to be a copy fails as such for want of an original to support it. Buff&ndeauY. Edmondson, 24 Cal. 94; Moulton y. Ellmaker, 30 Cal. 527; Boston y. Haynes, 31 Cal. 107; Foy v. Borneo, 33 Cal. 317; Lynch v. Bu/nn, 34 Cal. 518. It is ordered that tbe appeal be dismissed.