Court Opinion

ID: 5417298
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:20:24.724521+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:04.566138
License: Public Domain

Rodenbeck, J.
The difficulty with the contention made by the defendant in this case is that the plaintiff in making service by publication was controlled by the statutes of this state. He was required to make an *662attempt to serve the summons personally within the state before the expiration of the six year Statute of Limitations and not having succeeded he was also required to secure an order for publication within the time prescribed by the statute. Code Civ. Pro. §§ 382, 399, 414, 439. These statutes as contended by the defendant are required to be strictly observed and they could not be complied with by the plaintiff except at the time when the service was made. If plaintiff had attempted to make this service after the expiration of the defendant’s term of military service, he could not have complied with the state statutes relating to service by publication under the circumstances. The federal statute did not change the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure. It merely extended the time in which service might be made by the term of military service, but this extension is not to be construed as modifying the requirements of the statutes relating to service by publication. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Belief Act, March 8, 1918. The provisions of section 414 of the' Code of Civil Procedure do not affect the situation, as the federal statute does not attempt to prescribe a “ different ” limitation. The federal statute does not stay actions by or against those in military service. This is conceded by the defendant. If this is true the plaintiff had the right to commence his action by personal service at any time before the expiration of fhe six year period of limitation plus the period of military service, but this is not true as to service by publication because the statute provides when that service shall be made. The Code of Civil Procedure could be complied with only at the time when the service was made by the plaintiff. Under sections 382, 399, 414 and 439 of the Code of Civil Procedure service by publication against a resident of the state, absent from the state in the military *663service, is sufficient, if made in accordance with the requirements of those sections on the basis of the six year Statute of Limitations. The papers upon which the order was granted are sufficient. The statute requires proof by affidavit of the facts conferring jurisdiction. The action was upon a demand note which became due and payable at once and the statute began to run against it immediately. The date of the note which is set forth in the complaint is sufficient proof of the time when the cause of action accrued since as a matter of law it accrued at the date of the note and the Statute of Limitations would expire six years from that time. The motion to set aside the judgment is denied, with ten dollars costs of motion.
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs.