CISSELL V. PULASKI OOUNTY.
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CISSELL
v.
PULASKI COUNTY.
(Olrcult Oourt, E. D. Arkan8as. October Term, 1881.) 1 COUNTY WARRANTS-CANCELLATION-NoTICE REQUIRED.
The notice required to be given of the order of the county court calling in warrants for cancellation and reissue, under a statute, in Arkansas, is for the benefit of the warrant-holders; and the county, which is suitor in the proceeding, cannot object that legal notice of such call was not given.
2.
NOTICE-PUBLICATION, HOW PROVED-AFFIDAVIT.
The affidavit, to prove the publication of a legal notice in judicial proceedings, must show that the paper in which the publication was made is one authorized to publish such notices, and that the affiant sustains the relation to the paper required by the statute to authorize him to make the a1fidlwit. 3. SAME-CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE-FACTS MUST AFFIRMATIVELY ApPEAR;
When it is sought to conclude a party by constructive service, by publication, every fact necessary to the exercise of jurisdiction, based on such service, must affirmatively appear in the mode prescribed by the statute. 4. SAME-DEFECTIVE PROOF CANNO'f BE SUPPLIED BY PAROl, TESTIMONY. If the proof of publication contained in the record is defective, it is not
competent for another court to receive parol testimony to supply the omission. SAME-RECORD EvIDENCE OF NOTICE-PRESUMPTIONS.
The recital of due notice in the record of a proceeding, under special statutory authority, must be read in connection with that part of the record which gives the official evidence prescribed by statute. No presumption will be allowed that other or different evidence was produced; and, if the evidence in the record will not justify the recital, it will be disregarded.
A statute in Arkansas authorizes the county court at stated periods to call in all the outstanding warrants of the county "in order to redeem, cancel, reissue, or classify the same." An order for the call is required to be made by the county court, and notice of the time fixed for the presentation of warrants under the call must be given in a mode provided by the act, and all warrants not presented at or before that time are barred. The plaintiff sued on warrants of the defendant county reissued under a call in 1875. The county answered (1) that there was no sufficient notice of the call of 1875, and that the reissue of the warrants by the county court under the supposed call of that year was illegal and void; and (2) that a warrants in suit were not prevalid call was made in 1877, and sented under that call as required by law and the order of the county court, and were therefore barred. John McClure, for plaintiff. B. C. Bl'uwn, for defendant.
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FEDERAL REPORTER.
D. J. 1. It is not material to inquire into the regu· larityof the order for the call of 1875, or the sufficiency of the notice. The county court had jurisdiction to adjudicate upon the validity of the warrants, if the holder submitted himself to its jurisdiction for that purpose, whether the order for the call and notice were valid or not. The object of the order for the call and of giving notice is to acquire jurisdiction over and bind those who do not voluntarily sub· mit their warrants for examination and adjudication. The county court has jurisdiction to pass upon the validity of a warrant or any other claim against the county at any time it may be presented to it by the holder. Section 595 (sixth subdivision) and section 611, Gantt's Digest. And when it invites holders to present their wal'rants and they do so, and the court acts upon them and there is no appeal taken from its judgment, the action is as binding in all respects on the county and the warrant·holders as if the call and notice of it had been regular. Allen v. Bankston, 33 Ark. 744. "The object of notice or citation in all legal proceedings is to afford to parties having separate or adverse interests an opportunity to be heard. It is not required for the protection of the applicant or suitor." Mohr v. Manierre, 101 U. S. 425-6. 2. The call of 1877 was ineffectual to bar warrants not presented, because it does not appear that notice of the call was given as required by law. The act under which the call was made requires the order to be published in "newspapers ,printed and published in this state;" and by the provisions of the act of Pebruary 15,1875, regulating the publication of legal advertisements in newspapers, the order must "be published in some daily or weekly newspaper printed in the county: · · · provided, there be any newspaper printed in the county, having a bona fide circulation therein, which shall have been regularly published in said county for the period of one month next before the date of the first publication of said advertisement. " The act of 1875 further provides that "the affidavit of any editor, publisher, or proprietor, or the principal accountant, of any newspaper authorized by this act to publish legal advertisements, to the effect that a legal advertisement has been published in his paper for the length of time and number of insertions it has been published, with a printed copy of such adyertisement appended thereto, subscribecl before any officer of this state authorized to administer oaths, shall be the evidence of the publication thereof as therein set forth." The order was published in two papers published in the county. but the proafs of publication do not state the papers, or either of them, had
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a bonafide circulation in the county, or that they had been published in the county for the period of one month next before the date of the first publication of the order. Publication of the order in a paper not "authorized," in the language of the act, "to publish legal advertisements," is a nullity; and whether the paper has the circulation, and has been published in the county for the period required by the statute, to authorize the publication of legal notices in its columns, are questions of fact to be proven in the mode provided by the statute for proving the fact of publication. Proof of these facts is a necessary part of the proof of publication, and it must be made by some one of the persons authorized to make the affidavit to the fact of publication. The persons authorized by the statute to make this affidavit are limited to those whose relation to the paper in which the publication is made is such as to afford them personal knowledge of the facts required to be proven, and the statute in terms declares the affidavits of such persons "shall be the evidence of the publication." That all other methods of proof were intended to be excluded, is shown by the fact that the act repeals all prior acts which authorized other methods of proof. Besides, it is quite obvious that one principal object of the act of 1875 was to secure beyond any contingency the payment of the printer's fee for publishing the advertisement; and this is accomplished by making his affidavit the only legal evidence of the publication, and then providing he shall not be required to make the affidavit until his fee for publishing the advertisement is paid. It is a rule without qualification or exception, that when it is sought to conclude a party by constructive service, by publication, a strict compliance with the requirements of the statute is required; nothing can be taken by intendment; and every fact necessary to the exercise of jurisdiction based on this mode of service must affirmatively appear in the mode prescribed by the statute. Gr(ly v. Larrimore, 4 Sawy. 638, 646; Steinbach v. Leese, 27 Cal. 295; Staples v. Fairchild, 3 N. Y. 43; P'ayne v. Young, 8 N. Y. 158; Hill v. Hoover, 5 Wis. 371; Galpin v. Page, 3 Sawy. 93; S. C. 18 Wall. 350; Settlemier v. Sullivan, 97 U. S. 444. It is not competent for this court to receive parol testimony to supply the omission. Gray v. Larrtlnore, supra; Noyes v. Butlel', 6 Barb. 617; Lawry v. Cady, 4 Vt. 506. The record of the connty court contains this recital: "From said return [sheriff's] the court doth find that due and sufficient and legal
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notice of the calling in of the outstanding warrants of said county has been given." . The return here referred to is spread at large upon the record of the connty court in the proceedings under the call, and is made part of it, and discloses on the face of it the defect in the proof of publication which we have pointed out. Where, as in this case, the proceedings are had under special statutory authority, not according to the course of the common law, the recital of due notice must be read in connection with that part of the record which gives the official evidence prescribed by statute. No presumption will be allowed that other or different evidence was produced, and if the evidence in the record will not justify the recital it will be disregarded. Settlemier v. Sullivan, 97 U. S. 444; Galpin v. Page, 18 Wall 350. MCCRARY, C. J., concurs.
T.JINTON and Wife v.
FIRST
NAT. BANK OF KITTANNING and others.
(Uircuit Court, W. D. Pennsylvania. March 11,1882.) 1. NAME-RIGHT TO CHANGE. At common law a man may lawfully change his name, and he is bound by any contract into which he may enter in his adoptcd or reputed name. and by his known and recognized name he may sue and be sued.
PLEADII\G-INSUFFICIENT PI,EA.
'In a suit by husband and wife, in her behalf, a plea which alleges that the surname in which they sue is not the husband's real name, but which does not deny that it is his known and recognized name, is bad.
3.
GUARDIAN-AppOINTMENT-SCOPE OF AU'rHORITY UNDER.
An appointment by an orphans' court in Pennsylvania of a guardian for certain designated estates of a non-resident minor, lying within the jurisdiction of the court, does not operate so as to constitute the appointee the general guardian of all the estates of such minor within the commonwealth, but the guardianship is limited to the particular estates mentioned in the petition and order. 4. TRUST DEED-RIGHTS OF BENEFICIARy-MINORITy-EFFECT OF MARRIAGE.
Where B., in conRideration of love and affection for his granddaughter, a minor, set apart for her separate use certain hank stock, the trust deed providing that she should not" sell, dispose of, or charge" said stock or its dividends without the consent and concurrence of such guardian or trustee as the proper court might appoint for her, but giving her" the full right to use and enjoy" for her" own use" and that of her family all the dividends, the cestui que trust having attained her twentieth birthday, and being then married, held, that she was entitled to receive the dividends direetly from the bank without the intervention of either zuardian or trustee.