143 P. 957 | Mont. | 1914
delivered the opinion of the court.
In May, 1912, prior to the 28th, the plaintiff (appellant herein) brought an action before Lee L. Minnick, a justice of the peace at Saco, Valley county, to recover judgment for the sum of $137.93, with interests and costs. Effective service of summons upon the defendant was not secured until August 6, an alias summons served on that date being returned and filed on August 9. Thereafter the defendant appeared and filed a plea or objection to the jurisdiction of the justice. On September 25 the objection was overruled and the defendant was given “till October 1, 1912, in which to plead, answer or demur.” The defendant did not appear. On October 2 counsel for plaintiff submitted his evidence, and judgment was rendered and entered for the plaintiff for $165.70, with costs taxed at $3.50. On December 7 the plaintiff caused an abstract of the judgment to be filed with the clerk of the district court of Valley county,
Both parties have regarded the order as a special order made
These provisions have been construed in those jurisdictions where similar provisions are in force, as having only the purpose and effect which we have accorded to them. (Young v. Remer, 4 Barb. 442; Kerns v. Graves, 26 Cal. 156; Gates v. Lane, 49 Cal. 266.)
Our conclusion is given support by another consideration. “A motion to quash is not an appropriate or admissible mode ,of bringing under review the errors or irregularities that may exist in the judgment upon which the execution is issued, unless the judgment is utterly void.” (Town of Hayward v. Pimental, 107 Cal. 386, 40 Pac. 545; Schultze v. State, 43 Md. 295.) If
The appealable character of the order is not discussed in the brief of counsel, though it was called in question by the court during the course of the argument at the hearing. In view of the fact that the court has no jurisdiction to review the order on appeal, we have, for this reason, deemed it better to decline to review it, rather than, by deciding the questions presented on their merits, to establish a precedent that will prove misleading.
Appeal dismissed.
Dismissed.