Forsyth v. Warren

Illinois Supreme Court
Forsyth v. Warren, 62 Ill. 68 (Ill. 1871)
Thornton

Forsyth v. Warren

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice Thornton

delivered the opinion of the Court:

In this case the judgment was set aside, and a rehearing granted by the court, upon its own motion.

The objection, that sixty days did not intervene between the first insertion of the publication of notice and the first term of the court, is not well taken. In the computation of the time, in such case, the rule established is to exclude the day of the first insertion, and include the first day of the term. By this rule, sixty days did intervene. Vairin v. Edmonson, 5 Gilm. 270.

The recital in the notice of publication of a date to the writ of attachment subsequent to the return term, is not a fatal defect. Independent of this recital, the notice informed the debtor of the attachment, against whose estate, for what sum, and before what court it was pending, and that, unless he appeared at the court house in Chicago at a fixed time, and plead, judgment would be given against him. The statute was fully complied with, and the party could know from the notice when and where to appear and defend the attachment. He could not have been misled by the mistaken and unnecessary date.

The last objection is, that the judgment exceeds the sum stated in the affidavit and subsequently accruing interest. There was no other jurisdiction obtained in the case, except by levying the attachment and publishing the notice. The excess is conceded. The cases of Rowley v. Berrian, 12 Ill. 202 ; Hichins v. Lyon, 35 Ill. 150; and Hobson v. Emporium Co., 42 Ill. 306, hold that this is error.

We can not accede to the proposition urged by appellee, that appellants waived this error by coming into court after judgment, though at the same term, and praying an appeal. If the exercise of the right which the law gave him to correct the error by appealing to this court, is to be deemed a waiver of the error in this ease, we are unable to see why it would not in every other.

The judgment of the court below must be reversed, and the cause remanded.

Judgment reversed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Orrin Forsyth v. William C. Warren
Cited By
8 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
1. Attachment—publication of notice—of the computation of the sixty day's time required by the statute. In the computation of time under the section of the attachment act, requiring that sixty days shall intervene the first publication of notice and the term of court, the rule is to exclude the day on which the notice is first inserted in the newspaper, and include the day on which the term commences. 2. Same—notice of publication—whether defective. In an attachment suit, - the notice of publication recited a date to the writ subsequent to the return term. Such mistaken and unnecessary date, the notice without regard to the same being otherwise in full compliance with the statute, was not regarded as a fatal defect in the notice. 3. Judgment in attachment—when limi'ed to the amount claimed in the affidavit. It is a .fatal error for the plaintiff in an attachment in which there is no other jurisdiction obtained in the o' se except by levying the attachment and publishing the notice, to take judgment for more than the sum claimed in the affidavit and notice, with the subsequently accruing interest. 4. Same—waiver of such error. Nor does the defendant waive such error by coming into court after judgment, though at the same term, and praying an appeal.