Redwood Land Co. v. Kimball

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Defendant, Mrs. Farrell W. Kimball, a resident of California, was granted an intermediate appeal to review an order denying her motion to quash service of summons in this action to quiet title to property in Utah.

Her argument that the motion should have been granted is grounded thus: the summons was served upon her personally in Sacramento County, California (in lieu of publication of summons, as allowed by Rule 4(f) (1) U.R.C.P.) on the 7th day of February, 1967. But proof of service was not made until eight days later, February 15, 1967, and thus not in compliance…