Court Opinion

ID: 9864524
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:48:22.70124+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:13:59.028928
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THE COURT.
The argument made by respondent in its petition for rehearing would be pertinent had the default judgment appealed from been one which was entered by the court. In that case it would be presumed that all of the necessary facts as to the service of summons had been made to appear. The judgment-roll here exhibited shows that the clerk entered judgment upon an insufficient affidavit of service of summons, and we cannot assume that there was any other proof made of such service. The clerk’s duty of entering a default judgment is a ministerial one and not judicial in its nature. The supplemental affidavit filed long after the per*781fecting of this appeal can constitute no proper part of the record to which we are entitled to look in determining the question presented.
Rehearing is denied.
A petition to have the cause heard in the supreme court, after judgment in the district court of appeal, was denied by the supreme court on June 28, 1912.