This cause was submitted on a motion to dismiss for the' following reasons:

That no citation has been properly served upon the defendant in error.

The endorsement of service upon the citation in this case is in the following words:

“ By direction of Ramsay M. Cox, I endorse service of the within citation; acknowledged this 11th May, 1836.

S. D. Livingston, Clk.”

The entering of an 'acknowledgment of service of a citation upon its back, by the clerk of the inferior court, is a mode of service unknown to the law, and void.

The cause must, therefore, be dismissed with costs.