Court Opinion

ID: 9640478
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:06:48.746119+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:30.139572
License: Public Domain

*127MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
The statute prescribes a form of notice by publication as a means reasonably calculated to bring home to the party actual notice of the proceeding. If the statutory form of notice is not complied with, and some other method of notification is utilized, it is clear that there is a fatal defect unless the alternative form of notification results in actual notice to the party far enough in advance of the scheduled hearing so as to afford him reasonable opportunity to protect his interests. But if the alternative form of notification did result in such actual notice, I should be reluctant to hold that the failure to make the statutory publication invalidated the proceedings. However, it seems to me unnecessary to decide this technical point in the case at bar. We do not know that Irahola was actually at the New York address to which the various notices were sent; indeed, the inference might be to the contrary, for the first notice, despatched by the clerk of the district court, was returned, according' to the record, because Irahola “was not found at said address”. In such circumstances, where the statutory requirement of notice by publication was disregarded, it seems to me unwarranted to “presume” that the other letters of notification were actually received by Irahola.