123 Mich. 699 | Mich. | 1900
This is a direct proceeding attacking the validity of a judgment rendered in an attachment case commenced in the circuit court. There was no personal service of the original writ, but the ordinary notice in an attachment case was published for the purpose of obtaining substituted service. Defendant appeared specially, and a motion was made to set aside the service and quash the writ, which motion was overruled. The case then proceeded to judgment by default, and the case was at once brought here by writ of error. Several interesting questions are presented, but as one of them, in our judgment, disposes of the case, we will not discuss the others.
The court allowed the plaintiff to contradict by affidavits the ¡date of the return of the sheriff and the filing made by the county clerk. On one side of this issue is the affidavit of the deputy sheriff that he retained the writ until September 2d, but, supposing it should have been filed September 1st, he requested the clerk to file it as of that date, and it was so filed. The sheriff also testified that the writ was in the hands of his deputy on September 2d. On the other hand, the return is dated by the sheriff, “Sept. 1, 1899.” The return is indorsed with the file mark of the county clerk, “Sept. 1, 1899.” The county clerk made an affidavit that the return was filed in his office September 1, 1899. The county clerk’s assistant made affidavit that the file mark, “Sept. 1, 1899,” is in her handwriting, and that she verily believes that the return was actually filed and indorsed by her September 1,
Judgment is reversed, and writ dismissed.