People ex rel. Whitman v. Morhous

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “delivery of a summons to the wrong person does not confer jurisdiction over defendant, even though the summons shortly thereafter comes into the possession of the party to be served”
• “the fact that a defendant has received prompt notice of the action is of no moment” where service is improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).