Court Opinion

ID: 9855484
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:25:55.740611+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:35:54.163753
License: Public Domain

Judge Phillips
concurring.
I agree with all that is stated in the well-reasoned opinion of the majority except that defendants Fairley, Monteith and Cobb were not served with process until they received copies of the alias and pluries summons issued on June 7, 1983. In my opinion, these defendants were duly served in July, 1982, when the summons for each of them was delivered to and accepted by their partner in the very offices where all of them practiced law together. The only purpose of the rules concerning the modes of serving process is to guarantee that defendants are notified in *15some appropriate way of lawsuits filed against them. Since a defendant is duly served when a summons is left with some “discreet” adolescent at his house, it is inconceivable to me that he is not also served when the summons is delivered to his law partner at their place of business. When the purposes of the statute have been accomplished, as certainly was the case with these three defendants, reality, rather than technical wording, should control.