Case Name: Cox v. Wadlington et al.
Court: High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1838-12
Citations: 3 Howard 57
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cox v. Wadlington et al.
Judges: Judge Trotter having presided in the court below, on the trial of this cause, gave no opinion.
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 57–57

Head Matter:
Cox v. Wadlington et al.
. The writing of an acknowledgment of service of citation upon the hack of it, by the clerk of an inferior court, is a mode of service not known to the law, and therefore void.
MOTION to dismiss for want of service of citation.
Tupper and Rollins, for the motion.
Hughes, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam, Prat J.
This cause was submitted on a motion to dismiss for the' following reasons:
That no citation has been properly served upon the defendant in error.
The endorsement of service upon the citation in this case is in the following words:
" By direction of Ramsay M. Cox, I endorse service of the within citation; acknowledged this 11th May, 1836.
S. D. Livingston, Clk."
The entering of an 'acknowledgment of service of a citation upon its back, by the clerk of the inferior court, is a mode of service unknown to the law, and void.
The cause must, therefore, be dismissed with costs.
Judge Trotter having presided in the court below, on the trial of this cause, gave no opinion.