Lytle v. M'Cune
Lytle v. M'Cune
Opinion of the Court
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The assignments of error relate exclusively to the refusal of the court to set aside the service of summons, which, as shown' by the return, was regular and valid, but which, as claimed by the defendant, was obtained by inducing him by false representations to come within the jurisdiction of the court so that process might be served upon him. It appears by the record that after the first rule to show cause why the service should not be set aside was discharged, the plaintiff filed his statement and entered a rule upon the defendant to plead, and that his attorney accepted service of notice of this rule. Subsequently
Moreover there is grave doubt whether the refusal to set aside the service of a summons upon an allegation of facts outside the record is assignable for error. The principles which control in case of foreign attachment would seem to apply. See Nicoll v. McCaffrey, 1 Pa. Superior Ct. 187, and cases there cited, especially the opinion of Mr. Justice Williams in Holland v. White, 120 Pa. 228 ; also Bellah v. Poole, 202 Pa. 71.
The assignments of error are overruled and the judgment is affirmed.
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- Practice, C. P. — Service—Luring into jurisdiction — Waiver. Where a service regular on Us face is sought to be set aside on the ground that the defendant was fraudulently lured into the jurisdiction, and two rules have been taken for that purpose, but both discharged, and the defendant then pleads, files a bill of particulars, and goes to trial, without excepting to the orders of the court discharging his rules, and without reserving his right to except to the service, he will be deemed to have waived his objection to the service and to have submitted himself to the jurisdiction of the court. Doubted whether the refusal to set aside the service of a summons upon an allegation of facts outside the record is assignable for error.