193 F. 612 | 9th Cir. | 1912
(after stating the facts as above).
Error is assigned to the ruling of the court below that the proceedings in cause 667A were valid as against Smallwood, and that the decree therein and proceedings thereunder divested Smallwood of title to the property in controversy.
It is contended that the decree was rendered without jurisdiction of the defendant Smallwood, in that first, the published summons was fatally defective; and, second, there was no proof before the court of the mailing of a copy of the summons and the complaint to said defendant. It is said that the published summons did not comply with the statute, in that it did not state the time when the defendant was required to appear. The judgment roll in the foreclosure suit shows that Smallwood was a nonresident of Alaska, and that upon an affidavit stating that fact and naming the place of his residence substituted service was directed to be made upon him. The order of publication was dated April 23, 1908, and it directed that .the summons be published in a designated weekly newspaper once each week for a period of six weeks, and that the plaintiff’s attorneys mail a copy of the summons and complaint to Smallwood at his place of residence in British Columbia “forthwith.” The publisher of the paper made affidavit on July 1, 1908, that the summons had been published weekly for seven consecutive weeks, the first publication being on May 2d, and the last on June 13th. There was no other proof of service, and there was no proof before the court on December 8, 1908, when the decree of foreclosure was entered that a copy of the summons and complaint had been mailed to the defendant Smallwood. It is claimed that the summons so published was void for failure to state the time within which the defendant was required to answer the complaint. The summons as published required the defendant Smallwood to appear “within 30 days after the completion of the period of publication of this summons,” and it was dated April 25, 1908. Below the signature of the attorney for the plaintiff it contained these words: “First pub May 2, 1908 Last pub June 13, 1908.” Where a.collateral attack is
They were there as a part of the published notice. It must be presumed that they were there by authority. The defendant could not have read the summons without seeing them. Williams v. Pittock, 35 Wash. 271, 77 P. 385; Shinn v. Cummins, 65 Cal. 97, 3 P. 133.
It is well established that, where the published notice contains all that the statute requires that it shall contain, mere formal defects not calculated to mislead will not prevent the attaching of jurisdiction. Lane v. Innes, 43 Minn. 137, 45 N.W. 4; Blair v. Wolf, 72 Iowa, 246, 33 N.W. 669; Clark et al. v. Marfield, 77 Ill. 258; Hibernia Sav. & L. Soc. v. Matthai, 116 Cal. 424, 48 P. 370; Cunningham v. Spokane Hydr. Min. Co., 20 Wash. 450, 55 P. 756, 72 Am.St.Rep. 113; National Ins. Co. v. Chamber of Commerce, 69 Ill. 22; Frisk et al. v. Reigelman, 75 Wis. 499, 508, 43 N.W. 1117, 44 N.W. 766, 17 Am.St. Rep. 198; Moore v. Horn & Bouldin, 5 Ala. 234.
The contention that the decree of foreclosure is void for want of jurisdiction as to the defendant Small-wood for failure of proof that copies of the complaint and summons were mailed to him as ordered by the court cannot be sustained. The record shows that on April 28, 1910,
It is argued that, even conceding the decree of foreclosure to be valid, the proceedings had thereunder did not divest the title of Smallwood, and it is asserted that, the execution having been directed solely against Erlich, the sale thereunder in no manner affected Smallwood’s interest. There is no basis for this contention in the record. The decree directed the sale of the real estate to satisfy the liens, and expressly barred and foreclosed Erlich and Smallwood and all persons claiming under them of any right, title, or interest in the property. There was no sep
The judgment is affirmed.