112 Wis. 433 | Wis. | 1901
The notice of appeal identified the cause and the judgment referred to with reasonable certainty, the record of which has been certified to this court. That satisfies the statute. “ Ered ” is so commonly used for Frederick and Friedrich that no good reason can be assigned for supposing that respondent was not fully informed by the notice who was intended as plaintiff; hence the title to the action was substantially given. Only one judgment therein existed. It was against the appellant, notwithstanding it was also against others; therefore the expression “ appeal from the judgment against the appellant” sufficiently pointed to the judgment in the record before us.
The motion to dismiss the appeal because the notice failed to state, as the fact was, that the appeal was only' from that part of the judgment which affected appellant, is ruled against respondent by Irvin v. Smith, 68 Wis. 220. True, sec. 3049, Stats. 1898, requires such a notice to state whether the appeal is from the whole judgment or from some part
The only question on the merits is this: In a paper attached to a summons, does a statement that the signer thereof served the summons on the defendant, naming him, and that he knows the person so served to be the identical-person named as defendant in such paper, substantially comply with the requirement of sec. 2642, Stats. 1898, that an affidavit of the service of a summons shall show that the person making the service “knew the person served to be the defendant mentioned in the summons ” ? Nothing less than a substantially full compliance with the statute is-sufficient to establish the jurisdictional fact of service so as-to enable the court to render a valid judgment by default. Sayles v. Davis, 20 Wis. 302; Grantier v. Rosecrance, 27 Wis. 488; Kernan v. N. P. R. Co. 103 Wis. 356. The language of the statute need not be literally followed. Any language-conveying, substantially, the statutory idea will do. German M. F. F. Ins. Co. v. Decker, 74 Wis. 556. In the absence of any adjudication on the subject there would be room for saying that words to the effect that the person who made-a service knows that he served on the right person, is not equivalent to saying that he had such knowledge at the instant of making the service, and that such concurrence of knowledge with the service is what the statute demands. However, in German M. F. F. Ins. Co. v. Decker, supra, this, court seems to have adopted a different rule, holding that it satisfies the statute if, at the time of making the proof of
By the Gourt.— The various motions are denied, and, under the circumstances, without costs. The judgment appealed from is affirmed.