Board of County Commissioners v. Challiss

Citations

• 65 Kan. 179
• 69 P. 173
• 1902 Kan. LEXIS 34

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Practice, District Court — Tax Foreclosure Proceedings— Service of Summons. By the language, “thereupon a' summons shall be issued as in other cases, and served upon the defendants personally, if residents of the state,” employed in section 1, chapter 392, Laws of 1901 (Gen. Stat. 1901, §7718), reference is had to personal service upon resident defendants as contradistinguished from constructive service by publication against nonresident defendants. Service by leaving a copy of the summons at the usual place of residence of a defendant is personal service, within the meaning and intent of the act, and valid.</p>