Fleehr v. Mummert

How courts have described this case

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• holding court can obtain personal jurisdiction over party when party appears and takes actions going to merits of case
• stating that an individual can “become a party to a suit by voluntary appearance.”
• stating that “[a] defendant manifests an intent to submit to the court’s jurisdiction when the defendant takes some action (beyond merely entering a written appearance) going to the merits of the case, which evidences an intent to forego objection to the defective service.”
• “Counsel’s actions were taken on Appellant’s behalf and must be seen as a recognition of the ... complaint, for absent such there was nothing to consolidate.”
• “Counsel’s actions were taken on Appellant’s behalf and must be seen as a recognition of the ... complaint, for absent such there was nothing to consolidate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).