Locke v. Peterson

WADE, Justice.

This is an appeal by L. R. Peterson, defendant, from the trial court’s refusal to set aside a default judgment. On August 26, 1954, Earl D. Tanner, attorney for plaintiffs Whitland T. Locke, Ralph O.

Williams and Hayne L. Jarrard, respondents here, handed to defendant a summons and purported copy thereof requesting him to sign the following statement which was typewritten on the front of both the original and the copy:

“Receipt of this summons is acknowledged this 26th day of August, 1954, and service of the same is accepted.

“L. R. Peterson”

Peterson signed both the original and…