148 Wis. 391 | Wis. | 1912
Defendant bad tbe right to assume tbat the-copy of tbe summons served was wbat it purported to be, a true copy of tbe original, and, if an unsigned summons is in fact no summons at all, then tbe court acquired no jurisdiction of tbe person of tbe defendant and tbe service sbould. bave been set aside. If tbe signature is not necessarily an essential part of tbe summons, then we bave a mere irregularity to deal witb and not a jurisdictional defect, and tbe trial court reached a correct conclusion. Tbe precise question here involved was before tbe Minnesota and Iowa courts- and they reached opposite conclusions, tbe Minnesota court, bolding tbat tbe omission of tbe signature was a mere irregularity (Lee v. Clark, 53 Minn. 315, 55 N. W. 127), and tbe Iowa court bolding tbat an unsigned summons was no summons and could give tbe court no jurisdiction of tbe person of tbe defendant (Hoitt v. Skinner, 99 Iowa, 360, 68 N. W. 788). This court has said tbat tbe only object of tbe statute-(sec. 2630, Stats. 1898) in requiring tbe summons to show
By the Court. — Order affirmed.