Court Opinion

ID: 9773617
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:51:53.535483+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:55.567950
License: Public Domain

SEILER, Judge,
concurring in part.
I concur only with that portion of the opinion which holds that a defendant does not, by failing to appear, waive the right to contest the trial court’s personal jurisdiction over him. As the principal opinion says, this is the issue in the case.
However, that portion of the opinion, commencing with footnote 4, dealing with whether a voluntary appearance by a defendant in and of itself constitutes a waiver of lack of personal jurisdiction is not necessary to the decision and should be reserved for decision where the issue is directly before the court. No such issue is presented in the case at bar. That issue is presented, however, in State ex rel. White v. Marsh, No. 62754, set for hearing at the January 1983 term. The Marsh case should not be prejudged by dicta in the present case, *95where the issue is not presented, briefed, or argued. The defendant did not enter a general appearance or take any action constituting a voluntary appearance in the present case. Therefore, the question of what effect this has as a waiver of lack of personal jurisdiction is not before us. We should reserve a decision on that point for the Marsh case, where it is squarely presented.