Court Opinion

ID: 5433273
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 17:49:19.430684+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:43.288379
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Murray, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court—Terry, J., concurring.
The order of the Court below, setting aside a default, and judgment entered during vacation, was regular and correct, inasmuch as there had been no service of summons upon the defendants.
This proceeding is expressly warranted by the sixty-eighth Section of the Practice Act, and, in a case where there has been no service whatever, it is not necessary to file a bill in chancery to vacate the judgment; but it may be set aside or re-opened, on motion, within the time allowed by law.
Although the “ want of proper legal service ” was the ground of the defendants’ motion in the Court below, the record shows that there was, in fact, no service whatever.
•Judgment affirmed.