Debt, on a judgment recovered in Maine by the plaintiffs •against the defendant Cate, in 1871, upon default. The officer’s return of service on the original writ was, “ I made service on the within named defendant by delivering a summons in hand for his appearance at court.” The defendant objected that the return did •not show that the summons was given by the officer to the defendant in hand, as required by the Maine Revised Statutes.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1890-06-05
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1945
1 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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The return of the officer that he “ made service on the within named defendant by delivering a summons in hand for his appearance at court ” was sufficient. It cannot, by any reasonable interpretation, be construed to mean a delivery in hand to .any other person than the defendant.
