131 Cal. App. 41 - In Re Meyer’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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1. “Section 1015: “When a plaintiff or a defendant, who has appeared, resides out of the State, and has no attorney in the action or proceeding, the service may be made on the clerk or on the justice where there is no clerk, for him. But in all cases where a party has an attorney in the action or proceeding, the service of papers, when required, must be upon the attorney instead of the party, except service of subpoenas, of writs, and other process issued in the suit, and of papers to bring him into contempt. ...” Section 1016: ‘1 The foregoing provisions of this chapter do not apply to the service of a summons or other process, or of any paper to bring a party into contempt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 120 Cal. App. 2d 474 - Smith v. Smith

2. ““There is no record of the testimony taken at the contempt hearing before us, and it therefore becomes necessary for us to look to the findings and to the face of the order for the necessary support of the judgment (Merritt v. Superior Court, 93 Cal. App. 177 [ 269 Pac. 547 ]). Prom the findings it does not appéar affirmatively that petitioner did have the ability, at the time of the hearing of the order to show cause on the contempt proceedings, to comply with the order, and the lack of such affirmative finding of ability to pay deprives the trial court of jurisdiction to find petitioner in contempt or to commit him in punishment thereof.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Cardella