JONES V. EVERETT LAND CO.
529
JONES v. EVERETT LAND CO. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. No. 106. L WRITS-SERVICE BY PUBLICATION-Tum FOR ApPEARANCE.
April 26, 1894.)
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The amendment of Civ. Prac. Act. Wash. Terr. § 64, relating to servi.ce of summons by publication, by act of 1875, requiring a defendant so notified "to appear as if personally served within the county in which the complaint Is filed on the day of the last publication," prescribed the time of appearance, which must be within the 20 days fixed by sectiOn 60 'in case of personal service within the county. Civ. Prac. Act Wash. Terr. § 63, authoJ;izing an order "that service- be made by the publication of the summons," as amended in 1875 by omitting the words "of the summons," did not require publication of the complaint with the summons.
SAME-PUBLICATION OF COMPLAINT.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Washington. This was an action of ejectment by Charles F. Jones against the Everett Land Company. The circuit court directed, a verdict for defendant, and entered judgment accordingly. Plaintiff brought error. Wm. Lair Hill, Junius Rochester, A. D. Warner, W. R. Davis, and W. Scott Beebe, for plaintiff in error. Francis H. Brownell, for defendant in error. Before McKENNA and GILBERT, Circuit Judges, and HAWLEY, District Judge. McKENNA, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment, brought by plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the United States circuit court, district of Washington. Both parties derive title from Perrin C. Preston; the plaintiff by warranty deeds, and the defendant by sheriff's deed under a decree of foreclosure of a mortgage given prior to the deed to plaintiff in error. The controversy between the parties is at to the sufficiency of the service in the foreclosure suit. The suit was brought September 2, 1876, and service was made by publication, and gave 30 days to appear. The plaintiff contends that it should have required Perrin to appear within 60 days after service, the service being completed after the publication of the summons. The provision for the issuance and ser'ice of summons is as follows: "Sec. 60. The clerk shall endorse on the complaint the day, month, and year the same is filed, and at any time within one year after the filing of the same, the plalntitr may have a summons issued. The summons shall run in the name of the United States of America, be signed by the clerk, tested in the name of the judge of the court from which It issues, be directed to defendant, and be Issued under the seal of the court. The summons shall state the parties to the action, the court in which it is brought, the county in which the complaint is filed, and cause and general nature of the action, and require the defendant to appear and answer the complaint within the time mentioned In this. s.ection, after the service of the summons, exclusive of the day of serv-
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Jee, or that judgment by default wllI be taken against him, according to the prayer of the illIl.'1e:fiy stating'the sum of money or other relief demanded in the complalDt, and the clerk shall also endorse. on .the summons the names of,thepla:iDtiff'l;l iattorneys. The time in which the slIinmollS shall requIre the defendant to answer the complaint shall be as follows: First: If the defendant is served withintfle county in which the action Is brought, twenty (20) days. If the defenda,ntis served out of the county, but In the dilltrict in w4!.ch theacti6n is brought, thirty (30) days. Third: In all other. cases, sixty (60). days."
The of pUblica:tlQn and time is provided for in section 64, which is .asfoUows: ' "Sec. 64. The order shall direct the publication to be made in a. newspaper to be designated, as most likely to give notice to the person to be served, and for such length of timeas·IUaY be deemed reasonable, at .least once a week, and not less than six (6) weeks. In case of publication; where the residence is known, the· court .or .judge shall also direct a copy of an of the summons and complaint to be forthwith deposited in the post office, directed to the person to be served, at his place of residence. When the forethe a.mda:fit of the pubiislier 'or his foreman, and frIed before default Is taken. ActuaIpersonalservice of the summons, either within or without the territory, supersedel!l tlle necelillity of publication." .
going prO'Ci8ionB ha'De 'domplied with. ,the defendant: 80 notified, Bhall be required to appear aB if perBonally 8er'Ded within the cou,nty in which the complaint u fllcd on the d.ay of the laBt publication, proof tbereof being made by
The part in italics was added as an amendment in 1875. Other amendwents not necessary tonotic,e. The defendant in error contends that this amendment makes the first subg,ivision of section 60 applicable to service by publication; and on the contrary, insists that it prescribed merely the manner of appearance, not the time of it. We think the defendant's view is correct. Section 60 provides: "The summons shall * * * require the defendant to appear and. answer the complaint within," etc.,-that is, answer it in the manner provided by law; and this manner of appearance is made applicable to all summons, no matter withih what time to be answered. To provide it again by an amendrp.ent was useless. On the other hand, an amendment was necessary to make the first subdivision of section 60, instead of the third SUbdivision, apply to service by publication; and.it was natural enough to insert it in section 64, as the section was concerned with that topic. It is also 11.1rged by plaintiff that the court had no jurisdiction to order publication of summons against Preston, because section 63 provides that "service maybe made by publication * * * (3) in an action for sale of property * * * under a A complete answer to this ·is that the action was for the sale of real property under a mortgage,-strictly so as to Preston, for it was the only relief prayed against him. . Another point is made by plaintiff that a copy of the complaint was not published with the summons, as the practice act required. There is plausibility given to this point, because section 63, as it existed in 1873, contained the words that "such court or judge may grant an order that service be made by the publication of the summons." In 1875 thesec#on was amended in several particulars, and the words "of the summons"omitted. But a careful consid-
IN RE BARNARD.
531
eration of other sections, and in view of the nniversal cnstom where, as far as we have knowledge, or our attention has been di· rected, together with the special contemporaneous practice in Washington, as stated to exist by the learned judge who tried the case in the circuit court, convince us that it was not the intention of the legislature to require the publication of a copy of the complaint. What was meant by service by publication had become established, and we feel sure that if the legislature had intended a different meaning-a radical departure-it would have declared directly that a copy of the complaint should be published. There being no error in the record, the judgment is therefore affirmed. In re BARNARD. UNITED STATES TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK v. OMAHA & ST. L. RY. CO. (Circuit Court, S. D. Iowa, W. D. 1.
May 14, 1894.)
CoURTS-CONFLICTING STATE AND FEDERAL JURISDICTION-GARNISHMENT OF RECEIVER.
Where a receiver appointed by a federal court Is brought Into state courts through garnishment proceedings instituted by creditors of persons employed In the operation and maintenance of the railroad over which the receiver was appointed, the Intent of such proceedings being to reach the wages, In the receiver's" hands, of such employes, and to appropriate such wages to the payment of debts owing to the garnishing creditors, held: (1) That the receiver and said employes being in the service of the federal court, and the federal court being the proper forum in which to litigate such matters, such court will, by its order, protect said receiver from the serious inconvenience, expense, and possible hazard of litigating in the state courts the matters Involved In such garnishment proceedings, and Its employes from being starved out of Its service, and the efficiency of the road from being thereby impaired. (2) That even though such garni,h· ment proceedings might be brought without leave of said federal court first obtained, yet payment of any jUdgments therein rendered against the receiver is subject to the general equity jurisdiction of, and must be passed upon by, the federal court appointing the receiver. Act Aug. 13, 1888, c. 866, § 3. And even If such garnishment proceedings in the state courts might be enjoined, as brought without leave, by Injunction issuing out of such federal court, and in the exercise of Its general equity powers (which is not now decided), this court will not Issue such enjoining writ where thl:' desired result may otherwise be effectively accomplished. Under the facts above stated, the federal court may Issue'lts order directing the receiver, after service on him of garnishment notice or process, to tile copy of such order, and thereafter to take no further part in such garnishment proceeding, and providing that, if such proceeding be further prosecuted, the claim therein, or any judgment rendered thereon, shall not be allowed to be filed in such federal court, or be paid by the receiver, or out oftunds In his hands.
2. SAME-PREVENTING PROSECUTION OF GARNISHMENT OF RECEIVER.
SAME.
This was a suit by the United States Trust Company of New York against the Omaha & St. Louis Railway Company, in which J. F. Barnard was appointed receiver of the railway company.