Case Name: McCombs ads. Feeter
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1828-05
Citations: 1 Wend. 19
Docket Number: 
Parties: McCombs ads. Feeter.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 19–19

Head Matter:
McCombs ads. Feeter.
Service of a sci. fa. on the wife of a defendant in the absence of her husband, will not authorize the return of scire feci. The service must be personal.
Scire facias to revive a judgment. The sheriff returned that he had given notice to the defendant to appear according lo the exigence of the writ, by notifying the wife of the defendant, in the house of her husband, he being absent in parts unknown. On this return, a rule was entered that the defendant appear in four, and plead in twenty days, or judgment.
A motion was now made to set aside this rule.
Loomis, for defendant.
Plaintiff, in pro. per.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Sutherland, J,
The rule was irregularly entered. This was not a return of scire feci, which implies a personal service ; and though it might have been received as a return of nihil, authorizing the plaintiff to issue an alias and obtain a second return of nihil, he has not chosen so to consider it. The motion is granted, with costs.