53 Minn. 84 | Minn. | 1893
In this action, brought to determine an adverse claim made to certain real estate, the complaint and answer disclosed that plaintiff’s alleged title in fee depended wholly upon the regularity of the proceedings in an action brought in 1882 to foreclose a mortgage upon the property, executed and delivered to him by the defendant, said action having been brought while the latter was a nonresident of the state, and service of the summons having been made, if at all, by publication. By demurrer to the answer the regularity and sufficiency of these foreclosure proceedings have been assailed at but one point. It stands admitted that the summons was published in a daily newspaper six times, as follows: On Tuesday, February 7th, and on the following Tuesday, February 14th; next on February 23d, and then on March 2d and 9th, each being-on Thursday; and finally on Wednesday, March 15th. It will be seen that the third publication was made nine days after the second, while the sixth came six days subsequent to the fifth. Counsel for respondent take the position that, as the first publication was upon Tuesday, each succeeding one should have been on the same day of the week, — that is, the summons should have been published at regular intervals of seven days, — and this was the view, undoubtedly, of the learned judge below when sustaining the demurrer.
The statute which must now be construed, 1878 G. S. ch. 66, § 65, provides that the summons shall be published “once in each week for six consecutive weeks,” and the sole inquiry now is as to the absolute necessity of so publishing on the same day of each of these six consecutive weeks. The counsel for respondent, in addition to Hernandez v. Creditors, 57 Cal. 333, and In re King, 5 Ben. 453, cite Dayton v. Mintzer, 22 Minn. 393, and Greenwood v. Murray, 28 Minn. 120, (9 N. W. Rep. 629,) in support of the order appealed from. In the opinion in Dayton v. Mintzer and in the syllabus to Greenwood v. Murray may be found sugges
Order reversed.
(Opinion published 54 N. W. Rep. 1058.)
Application for reargument denied May 16, 1893.