Opinion

Scott v. Brown

  • 40 Okla. 184
  • 137 P. 113
  • 1913 OK 706
  • 1913 Okla. LEXIS 44
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Dec 9, 1913
Status
Published
Author
Turner
On the bench
Turner
Cited by
10 cases
Authority
More cited than 88.5%

The opinion

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TURNER, J.

On February 20, 1911, judgment was rendered and entered herein in the county court. After motion for a new trial was filed and overruled, plaintiffs in error, defendants below, commenced proceedings in error, and caused summons in error to be issued and served' on A. P. Brown, guardian of Mildred Brown, Alice Brown, Wm. G. Brown, and Martin Brown, minors, who, by their said guardian, were plaintiffs below. Come the minors and move the court to dismiss the proceeding, “because no summons in error was ever served upon the defendants in error or their attorneys.” Section 5238, Rev. Laws 1910, provides that after the petition in error has been filed in this court “a summons shall issue and be served, or publication made, as in the commencement of an action. A service on the attorney of record in the original case shall be sufficient.” Section 4721, Rev. Laws 1910, provides, if the defendant is a minor and under the age of fourteen years, that the summons in the commencement of an action shall be served on the minor and his guardian, and if over fourteen years, then on the minor. In either case it is necessary to serve the minor. This statute must be strictly followed.

The court having acquired no- jurisdiction of the minors by proper service, the motion to dismiss is sustained.

Bolling et al. v.

Campbell, 36 Okla. 671 , 128 Pac. 1091 ;

Fanning v. Foley,

99 Cal. 336 , 33 Pac. 1098 ;

Keys v. McDonald et al.,

1 Handy (Ohio) 287 ;

Helms v. Chadbourne,

45 Wis. 60 ;

Ingersoll v. Ingersoll,

42 Miss. 155 ;

Melcher v. Schluter,

5 Neb. (Unof.) 445 , 98 N. W. 1083 ;

Campbell v. Laclede Gas Co.,

84 Mo. 352 ;

Jones v. Mathews

(Miss.) 4 South. 547 .

All the Justices concur.

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