Raunn v. Leach’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The counsel for respondent . . . cite Dayton v. Mintzer, 22 Minn. 393 , and Greenwood v. Murray, 28 Minn. 120 , ( 9 N. W. Rep. 629 ,) in support of the order appealed from. In the opinion in Dayton v. Mintzer and in the syllabus to Greenwood v. Murray may be found suggestions that the statutory requirements providing for the publication of certain legal notices could only be complied with by separating the several weekly publications by intervals of exactly seven days. In neither of these cases was there a question of this character, and the suggestions in reference to it were purely obiter. It follows that the question must be treated as an open one in this jurisdiction. ... In the case at bar the summons was published for the first and second times on the third day of- the biblical week, and thereafter it appeared upon either the fourth or fifth days of such week, a Sunday intervening between each publication. It was also published once in each of the six consecutive weeks commencing on the day of its first appearance in the paper, Tuesday, February 7th. We are unable to hold that the statute was not complied with. The summons appeared once in each of the six periods of seven days’ duration beginning upon and which followed consecutively the date just mentioned. We construe the statute as authorizing just such a publication. The statutory week must commence upon the day of the first publication, and there is nothing in the language used which would justify the conclusion t”

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   e.g. 7 Wash. 2d 236 - King County v. City of Seattle