Schlesinger v. Schmidt Hotel Co.

The return in this case is fatally defective. On the return day the defendant filed an affidavit by its president, stating that he had been handed two papers, one a copy of the summons, and the other a copy of an alias summons. What motion, if any, was made thereon, does not appear; but there is an order directing that the service of the summons be set aside, and the complaint dismissed, and that judgment be entered for the defendant. This was on the ground that no jurisdiction was obtained over the defendant in failing to serve it with copies of all the alias that had been issued on…