Court Opinion

ID: 3958199
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:19:02.226331+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:24:24.376097
License: Public Domain

Appellee sued W. M. Edwards, surviving husband of Mrs. S. J. Edwards, and Zada Leah Edwards, an infant, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, for the foreclosure of a lien on land. The minor was a resident of a county other than the forum. The trial court appointed S. P. Hardwicke guardian ad litem.
The only question raised is that the return of the citation to the minor did not show that a true copy of the writ and a copy of the petition were delivered to the minor. The bill of exceptions shows that the citation commanded service on the minor, and states that the citation was unobjectionable save as to the objection urged. Appellant does not set out the citation in full. The return, as far as material to this inquiry, reads: "* * * By delivering to each of the with-in-named defendants in person a true copy of this citation (together with the accompanying certified copy of the plaintiff's) at the following times and places. * * *"
As the citation commanded service of Zada Leah Edwards, and she was the only defendant named therein, and as the omission of the word "petition" is clearly but a clerical error, we think the return, taken in connection with the citation itself, which we must presume commanded the delivery of a true copy of the writ, with the accompanying certified copy of plaintiff's petition, was sufficient as against the objection urged. If the citation in fact did not show such command, appellant should have incorporated it in his bill of exceptions.
For the reasons indicated, the case is affirmed.