Long v. Fife
Decision Date | 10 January 1891 |
Citation | 25 P. 594,45 Kan. 271 |
Parties | JULIETTE U. LONG et al. v. J. O. FIFE |
Court | Kansas Supreme Court |
Error from Wyandotte District Court.
THE case is stated in the opinion.
Judgement affirmed.
H. M Merriwether, for plaintiffs in error.
John A Hale, for defendant in error.
OPINION
On the first day of September, 1886, J. O. Fife filed a petition in the district court of Wyandotte county, asking judgment against Mrs. M. A. Hays, for $ 100 for attorney's fees. A summons was issued on the same day, and returned on the third day of September, 1886, "not found." On the same day on which the petition was filed, an affidavit for publication was filed in the clerk's office of the court, which, omitting caption, is in words and figures as follows:
On the same day on which the petition was filed, an attachment affidavit was filed, and on the 3d day of September, 1886, the real estate mentioned was attached, pursuant to the affidavit and the order issued thereon. Proceeding upon the affidavit, publication was made and filed on January 8, 1887. The publication notice, which was published for a sufficient time in the Wyandotte Gazette, a weekly newspaper of general circulation in Wyandotte county, Kansas, omitting caption, was as follows:
On the 19th day of January, 1887, the defendant failing to appear, judgment was rendered for plaintiff in the usual form, and on the 31st day of May, 1887, the sheriff of the county sold the real estate to James Birmingham. On the 6th day of June, 1887, the sheriff's deed was executed and the same was filed for record in the office of the register of deeds of the county of Wyandotte on the 13th of June, 1887. On the 28th day of December, 1886, the real estate in question was sold by Mrs. M. A. Hays and husband to Wingate Jackson. The deed was recorded December 30, 1886. On the 6th day of June, 1887, Jackson sold lot 6, block 79, to H. M. Merriwether, which deed was recorded June 11, 1887, and on June 9, 1887, Merriwether sold lot 6, block 79, to Juliette U. Long. This deed was recorded June 11, 1887. On the 21st day of September, 1887, Wingate Jackson and Juliette U. Long filed their motion to vacate and set aside the judgment, on the ground that the affidavit for publication was essentially defective; that the...
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