Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Wilbur
Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Wilbur
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff sued the defendant in an action to quiet title; the plaintiff had judgment; the de *605 fendant moved the lower court to vacate the judgment and the lower court denied the motion. The defendant appealed from the judgment in chief and from the order refusing to vacate.
The appellant has filed a transcript which contains a copy of the judgment-roll, and has inserted in the judgment-roll some papers which the statute does not authorize to be included therein, and has printed in the transcript some other papers not authorized to be printed therein; but she has not brought up a bill of exceptions. The appellant makes but one point, and that is, that the trial court did not have jurisdiction of the defendant and cross-complainant at the time it ordered judgment in favor of plaintiff. In support of this point she calls to our attention the fact that the defendant’s answer, and also the cross-complaint, are signed Edith M. Wilbur
in propria persona.
At this point it should be stated that there is nothing in the judgment-roll showing that the answer to the cross-complaint was not served on Edith M. Wilbur
in propria persona.
Still assuming that we have any right to examine papers not a part of the judgment-roll, it appears that on the second day of March, 1921, the answer to the *606 cross-complaint was duly served on Mr. Anthony, and that on March 10, 1921, a notice of the date of trial was duly served on Mr. Anthony, that thereafter on March 11th Mr. Anthony sent to Edith M. Wilbur all of the papers, thus giving her five days’ notice of the date of the trial. In fairness to all concerned, it may be stated that Edith M. Wilbur was not at her place of residence, and therefore did not receive the above-mentioned papers until the twenty-third day of March, 1921. In short, there is nothing in the record showing that the appellant ever complied with the provisions of sections 284 and 285 of the Code of Civil Procedure. She failed to follow the methods, provided by statute, by which each party, in legal effect, serves notice on his adversary who is the attorney duly authorized to receive and accept service. Errors and omissions, if any, were the errors and omissions of the appellant and not of the respondent.
The judgment is affirmed.
Nourse, J., and Langdon, P. J., concurred.
Reference
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- SECURITY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY (A Corporation), Respondent, v. EDITH M. WILBUR, Appellant
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