Court Opinion

ID: 4886099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-02 23:39:06.795498+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:05:14.548659
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
White, P. J.
§ 88. Service of citation by military officer. A defendant was served with citation by a lieutenant of state troops, and upon such service judgment by default was rendered. Held, that the officer had’ no authority to serve civil process, and the service being a nullity, the judgment by default was set aside.
§89. Defective citation. A citation which cited the defendant to appear in the year 187, cited him to appear at an impossible date, and was held to be fatally defective, and a judgment by default rendered thereon was set aside.
Reversed and remanded.