Godsoe v. Harder

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This was an action for damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs in a collision between two automobiles. The defendant was a minor. The motion of his father as natural guardian to quash the service of summons upon defendant, a minor, was sustained. The plaintiffs have appealed.

When the first summons was returned there was doubt in the minds of counsel for the plaintiffs as to whether or not the service was good, whereupon they filed a praecipe for alias summons in the following words:

“The Clerk of the above named court will please…