Western Life Trust v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• A district court without personal jurisdiction over a defendant “is powerless to do anything beyond dismissing without prejudice.”
• court could not rule on merits and dismiss with prejudice after determining it lacked personal jurisdiction because of insufficient service of process; court was powerless to do anything beyond dismissing without prejudice
• “Absent personal jurisdiction, ‘the court is powerless to do anything beyond dismissing without prejudice.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).