Case Name: DODGE, Respondent, v. HESS et al, Appellants
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: South Dakota
Decision Date: 1923-12-03
Citations: 47 S.D. 67
Docket Number: File No. 5439
Parties: DODGE, Respondent, v. HESS et al, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Dakota Reports
Volume: 47
Pages: 67–68

Head Matter:
DODGE, Respondent, v. HESS et al, Appellants.
(195 N. W. 972.)
(File No. 5439.
Opinion filed December 3, 1923.)
Appeal and Error — Waiver—Variance-Motions—Order Denying Motion to Strike Complaint Because of Variance Between It and Summons Held Not Appealable.
Order denying motion to strike complaint because of variance between' it and the summons, which was based on Rev. Code 1919, Sec. 2331, subd. 1, on the ground that defendants had made a general appearance within Rev. Code 1919, Sec. 2332, and that they could not have been misled by tbe form of tbe summons, held not appealable.
Appeal from' 'Circuit Court, Codington County; Hon. W. N. Skinner, Judge.
Action by Theodore Dodge, by C. H. Dodge, his guardian! ad litem, against S. B. Hess and another, copartners doing business as Hess & Rau. Erom an order of the trial court, denying a motion to strike the complaint, defendants- appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
Case & Case, of Watertown, for Appellant.
Loucks, Hasclie Foley, of Watertown, for Respondent.
Appellant cited: Berry v. Bigem'an (S. D.), 47 N. W. 825; St. Paul Harvester Go., v. Forbreg (’S. D.); 50 N'. W. 628.
Respondent cited: Barry v. Bingham; 47 N. W. 825; 'Mfc-Coun v. Railroad C'o., 50 N; Y. 176; Eomd du Lac v. Bonesteel, 22 Wis. 251; P’orter v. P'orter (Dak.), 33 N. W. 71.

Opinion:
GATES, J.
In this case a "money demand" summons (Rev. Code 1919 § 2331, subd. 1) was served; later a complaint based upon a cause of action in tort was served. On the 31st day thereafter the defendant's caused to be served upon plaintiff's attorneys a notice of appearance (R'ev. Code 1919 § 23132!) and an order to show cause, together with the affidavit on which the order was based, why the complaint should not be stricken because of a variance between it and the summons. Upon the hear ing the trial court denied the motion upon the ground that a general appearance had been made by defendants in the action and upon the ground that defendants could not have been misled 'by the form oí the summons. Defendants appeal from the order and rely upon St. Paul Harvester Co. v. Forbreg, 2 S. D. 357, 50 N. W. 628.
We are unable toi find any provision of section 3168, Rev. Code 191x9, that' makes this an appealable order. It seems tO' us that wjhat was said in Ryan v. Davenport, 5 S. D. 203, 58 N. W. 568, is, in principle, applicable here. That was an appeal from an order refusing to set aside the; service of a summons. St. Paul Harvester Co. v. Forbreg, supra, w;as an appeal from an order vacating a default judgment.
The appeal is dismissed,,' with costs to respondent.
Note.. — Reported in 195 N. W. 972. See, Headnote, American Key-Numbered Digest, Appeal and error, Key-No. 103, 3 C. J. Sec. 316.