54 P. 279 | Or. | 1898
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal. The transcript shows that on February 8, 1893, the County Court of Clackamas County admitted to probate an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Matilda D. Holt, deceased, and issued letters testamentary to C. M. Idleman, the person named in said will as the executor thereof, who qualified and entered upon the discharge of the duties of said trust; that on February 20, 1896, said court, upon the petition of Thomas Holt, surviving husband of the testator, found that' said will was void, and revoked the order admitting it to probate, and appointing an executor thereof. From this decree the excutor appealed to the circuit court of said county; but on October 15, 1896, and before the appeal came on for hearing, Thomas Holt died intestate, and the County Court of Linn County appointed Grant Holt administrator of his estate. On May 3, 1897, the circuit court, upon a trial of the cause, affirmed the decree appealed from; but on June 2 of that year, upon motion of the executor and suggestion of the death of Thomas Holt, and the appointment of an administrator of his estate, the decree of affirmance was vacated, Grant Holt substituted as contestant, and the decree of the county court reaffirmed. From this latter decree- the executor attempts to appeal, and relies upon the following certificate, indorsed upon the notice of appeal, as the method of obtaining jurisdiction, to-wit: “Due service of the within notice and receipt of a copy thereof admitted, this fifteenth day of September, A. D. 1897, at Oregon City, Oregon. A. S. Dresser, of Attorneys for Contestant.” Grant Holt, appearing by A. M.
Section 531, Hill’s Ann. Laws, in prescribing the person upon whom and the manner in which notices shall be served, provides that “when a party is absent from the state, and has no attorney in the action or suit, service may be made by mail, if his residence be known ; if not known, on the clerk for him. When a party, whether absent or not from the state, has an attorney in the action or suit, service of notice or other papers shall be made upon the attorney, if he reside in the county where the action or suit is pending, instead of the party, and not otherwise. ” Based upon this provision of the statute, it is contended that Dresser, being the only attorney of record residing in Clackamas County, was the proper and only person upon whom the notice of appeal could have
Dismissed.