Court Opinion

ID: 8508970
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 08:34:45.806423+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:51:01.460900
License: Public Domain

GIFFEN, P. J.
The justice of the peace had jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the person of the defendant by publication under Gen. Code 10263, and if the record shows that the justice rendered judgment by default without allowing one hour to the defendant in which to appear after the time mentioned in the continuance order under Gen. Code 10264, the same was voidable and not void for want of jurisdiction.
The court of common pleas having reversed the judgment of the justice for the reason .that one hour was not allowed to defendants, the case is, by force of Gen. Code 12246, still pending in that court as in eases of appeal.
If it be urged that the justice had no jurisdiction of the defendant because sued as “J. H. Heimerdinger, whose first name is unknown, ” it is sufficient to say that without any notice being served upon the defendant, the court would still have jurisdiction in an attachment suit, Paine v. Mooreland, 15 Ohio 435 [45 Am. Dec. 585], although the proceedings would be irregular and reversible.
The petition in error will be stricken from the files,
Smith and Swing, JJ., concur.