Laidlaw Waste Systems, Inc. v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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• holding that default judgment must be reversed because a combination of a certificate of service, a certified mail receipt, and a return receipt cannot be substituted for a completed officer’s return of service and does not satisfy the requirements of Rule 106 and 107
• affidavits by district clerk explaining, after default judgment rendered, the usual procedures for service of process in Johnson County
• affidavits by district clerk explaining, after default judgment rendered, the usual procedures for service of process in Johnson County
• appellate court’s review is limited to the record as it existed at the time the default judgment was rendered
• “By using the postal return receipt in lieu of completing the return, the District Clerk’s service of citation on Laidlaw failed to strictly comply with the Rules of Civil Procedure and will not support the default judgment.”
• “By using the postal return receipt in lieu of completing the return, the District Clerk’s service of citation on Laidlaw failed to strictly comply with the Rules of Civil Procedure and will not support the default judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).