Steves v. Carson

The plaintiffs in error commenced this action on June 5, 1889, by filing in the district court of Pitkin county a complaint in support of an adverse claim filed in the United States land office at Glenwood Springs, May 10, 1889. No summons was issued. On July 6, 1889, the defendants in *281error specially appeared and moved the court to dismiss the cause and strike the complaint from the files because no summons had been issued within thirty days from the date of filing the complaint. On July 9, 1889, plaintiffs in error filed a cross motion for leave to issue summons in the cause, upon the…