Court Opinion

ID: 6467499
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-26 14:07:55.148383+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:53:43.281553
License: Public Domain

OPINION OP THE COURT. MANN, J. This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the District Court of Chaves County, in favor of the appellee, the Boulder, Colorado, Sanatorium, against the appellant, Kate Vanston, for One Hundred Fifty-three and 10-100 Dollars for medical treatment, nursing, board, etc., alleged to have been rendered her by the ap-pellee. The action was brought by the appellant and on® Easton, as co-defendant, and a summons issued and served personally on each of said co-defendants, each of whom appeared specially and moved to quash the service on the ground, principally, that the name and address of plaintifí’s counsel was not endorsed on the summons as required by sub-sec. 19.of sec. 2685, C. L. 1897. These motions were by the Trial Court'overruled and appellant given ten days to further plead. Her co-defendant, Easton, upon the overruling of his motion to quash, filed a motion to strike from the files and a second motion to quash, each of which said motions were overruled. In the ■meantime Mr. R. E. Lund, an attorney of Roswell, New Mexico, and a member of the New Mexico bar, had entered his appearance for the appellee, by leave of the court. Easton then filed a motion to make definite as to certain allegations in the complaint, which referred solely to his connection with the case, and this motion was in part sustained. The ten days after the overruling of appellant’s motion to quash having in the meantime expired, a certificate of nonappearance as to her was filed by the clerk, and on motion of the appellant was granted by the court and a final .judgment rendered against her for the sum above set forth. Appellant then appeared and moved to vacate and set aside the judgment so rendered against her and to be allowed to defend, which was overruled and this appeal taken. Tim appellee then amended its complaint ajS to the co.-defendant Easton and the case proceeded as to him. The appellant complains as to the summons served upon her that it was not properly endorsed and that the complaint upon which it was issued was not signed by a duly entered attorney of record, etc., but in our judgment all objections to the summons were waived by appellant’s general appearance when she moved to set aside the default and final judgment,'upon grounds other than the want of jurisdiction. 3 Cyc. 509; Crane v. Penny, 2 Fed. 187; Pry v. Hannibal etc. Ry. Co., 73 Mo. 123; Neosho Valley Imp. Co. v. Cornell (Kans.) 56 Pac. 475; Sec. L. & T. Co. v. Boston & S. R. Fruit Co. (Cal.) 58 Pac. 941. The alleged defects of the summons having been thus waived and a general appearance entered, the only remaining question is whether the court erred in granting the default and rendering final judgment upon the verified account attached to the complaint. Appellant was clearly in default. She had failed to further move or plead after her special motion to quash was overruled, although the time allowed her to do so by the court had passed. This fact was duly presented to the court by a certificate of the clerk under seal and it was the plain duty 9Í the court to grant the default. Being in default, she cannot be heard to complain of the form of the judgment. There being no error apparent in the record, the judgment of the Trial' Court is affirmed.