Court Opinion

ID: 6606022
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:12:16.479484+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:58:11.291985
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OetoN, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of foreclosure by one of the defendants appearing specially for such purpose. The summonses, with the proof of the pretended service thereof by the affidavit of two private persons on the same, which are a part of the record, show that no service was legally made upon any of the defendants, and that the court therefore did not acquire any jurisdiction to render said judgment. The affidavits do not state that a copy of the summons was left with any of the defendants, as required by sec. 2642, It. S. The judgment is •clearly void for such reason. There was no appearance in .the circuit court, and judgment was taken by default. The case of Hall v. Graham, 49 Wis. 553, is closely in point. In that case, as in this, the defective service appears by the affidavit of the person making the same, indorsed upon the summons, and there was no appearance, and the defect is •the same. The judgment was reversed for that reason ¡alone. In that case it was held that due and proper service must appear upon the record before the court was authorized to render judgment by default, which sufficiently answers the argument of the respondent’s counsel that it must be presumed that due service was made by the sheriff or other officer. Matteson v. Smith, 37 Wis. 333, is equally in point. See, also Pollard v. Wegener, 13 Wis. 569; Rape v. Heaton, 9 Wis. 328; Sayles v. Davis, 20 Wis. 302; Dundon v. Starin, 19 Wis. 261, and other cases in this court.
■ By the Court.— The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings according to law.