Phillips v. State ex rel. Dorner

Citations

• 75 Fla. 93
• 77 So. 665

Syllabus

<p>1. The established principle is that a court created within and for a particular territory is bound in the exercise of its powers by the limits of such territory, and that no judicial process, whatever form it may assume, can have any lawful- authority outside of the limits of the jurisdiction of.the court or judge by whom it is issued.</p> <p>2. There is no statutory authority in this State for the service of a writ of summons issued from a County Judge’s Court in a civil case upon a sole defendant outside- of the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of the court issuing it, and therefore the service of such process beyond the territorial jurisdiction of such court gives to the court no jurisdiction over such defendant.</p>