Silverstone v. Totten

Citations

• 50 Wash. 447
• 97 P. 491
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 759

Syllabus

<p>Taxation — Process—Summons eor Publication — Sufficiency — Statutes — Change in Law — Pending Publication. A summons for publication in a tax foreclosure, requiring appearance within sixty days after service of the summons, complying with the law existing at the time of the service, is void where before the service was complete, a new law took effect, providing that the summons require appearance within sixty days after the date of the first publication of the summons; as the new law governs in matters of procedure.</p> <p>Judgments — Recitals—Process—Presumptions—Direct Attack. A recital in a judgment of due service of a summons is not conclusive where the judgment is directly attacked by an action in equity to set it aside; and an unquestioned finding that none but a defective service was made overcomes the presumption of regularity raised by the recital.</p>