Chaplin v. First Bank of Hitchcock

1919 OK 152, 181 P. 497, 72 Okla. 293, 1919 Okla. LEXIS 381
CourtSupreme Court of Oklahoma
DecidedMay 20, 1919
Docket8817
StatusPublished
Cited by6 cases

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Bluebook
Chaplin v. First Bank of Hitchcock, 1919 OK 152, 181 P. 497, 72 Okla. 293, 1919 Okla. LEXIS 381 (Okla. 1919).

Opinion

PITOHFORD, J.

On the 22d day of April, 1915, the First Bank of Hitchcock commenced in the district court of Blaine county an action .against Frank Oronkhite and M. S. Ohaplin. The relief sought will more fully appear from the affidavit herein. Personal service was had upon Frank Oronkhite, and plaintiff sought to have service on M. S. Ohaplin by publication. The material portion of the affidavit for service by publication, after naming the court, county, state and pai'ties, is as follows:

“That the said plaintiff, the First Bank of Hitchcock, has filed its petition and commenced its action in said court against the defendants, Frank Oronkhite and M. S. Chaplin, and in said action and petition sues the defendants, Frank Cronkhite and M. S. Ohaplin, to recover judgment on a promissory note given by the defendant Frank Oronkhite to the plaintiff on November 21, 1914, for" the sum of $1,935.90 with interest at 10 per cent, per annum after maturity, and maturing January 20, 1915, and the additional sum of $250 as attorney’s fees and for the costs of the action, and, to secure said indebtedness, claims a lien on 23% shares of the capital stock of said plaintiff bank issued to and owned by the defendant Frank Cronkhite, together with the dividends, interest, and profits which may accrue thereon, and alleges that the defendant M. S. Ohaplin claims .some lien upon .or interest in said shares of stock adverse to the plaintiff, but that whatever lien upon or interest in said shares of stock the said M. S. Chaplin may claim or have, if any, the same is inferior, junior, and subject to the lien and interest of the plaintiff as claimed and pleaded in its petition, and praying for judgment on said note against- the defendant Frank Cronkhite, and for the foreclosure of its lien on said shares of stock, and that the same be sold according to the law and the proceeds of the sale applied to the discharge of said indebtedness and judgment, and that the defendant M. S. Chaplin be required to go into court and plead any claim of. lien upon or interest in said shares of stock that he may have, and that judgment be rendered against him barring, divesting, and excluding him of all right, or interest in or lien upon said shares of stock, and for judgment against both of the defendants for all the costs of the action, and for all relief, orders and judgments to which the plaintiff may be entitled under the pleadings and the evidence.”

On the 1st day óf June, 1915, the defendant M. S. Ohaplin, by way of special appearance .and limiting his appearance to that purpose only, objected to the jurisdiction of the court for the following reasons, to wit:

First. That the action is not .one in which service by publication can be had as against this defendant under any provisions of the laws of the state of Oklahoma.

Second. That the affidavit filed herein for service by publication is defective and insufficient, in this, that the same does not show that the personal property claimed to be involved in this action was in the state of Oklahoma a:t the time of the commencement of this action.

Third. That said personal properly is not sought to be taken .or affected by any of the provisional remedies.

After filing the foregoing objections and before the judgment .of the court thereon, the plaintiff was granted leave over the objection of the defendant to amend the affidavit by inserting the following matter immediately after the end of the first paragraph, “located in the said Blaine county, state of Oklahoma, and organized under the laws of the state of Oklahoma,’’ and the following words and matter immediately after the words “Frank Cronkhite” in the fourth from the last line on first page of said affidavit, to wit, “in said Blaine county.” The court then overruled the special appearance, and the defendant M. S. Ohaplin excepted. On the same day the defendant M. S. Chaplin filed .his second special appearance, and mio-ved to quash on the grounds that the court was without jurisdiction to grant the right to amend, which was by the court overruled and exceptions saved. Defendant Ohaplin refused bo. plead further.

On the 2Gth day of January, 1916, the plaintiff obtained judgment by default against Frank Cronkhite in the sum of $2,-132.75 and $25 attorney’s fee, also a decree that the bank have a first -lien upon said stock, and that the said M. S. Chaplin had no right ion interest or lien in or against or upon said shares of stock, and also barring the defendant M. S. Chaplin from any right, title, and interest in said stock, and ordering the sale of said shares of stock to satisfy said judgment. We quote from the journal entry of the judgment the following:

“And now the court finds that the defendant Frank Ononkhite has been, duly and personally served with summons in said action in Blaine county, and due return of such summons duly made and filed, and the. time *295 allowed said defendant by law and by tbe terms of said summons in wbieb to answer has long since expired, and the defendant Prank Oronkhite has not answered or otherwise pleaded herein, and is hereby adjudged to be in default for want of answer or other-pleading, and for want of appearance. The court further finds that a summons has been duly served on the defendant M. S. Chaplin, by publication, and that publication thereof has been duly made in accordance with the requirements of law and on a good and sufficient affidavit therefor, and proof of such publication of summons has been duly made by affidavit and filed herein, and is hereby approved, and that the time allowed the defendant M. S. Chaplin by law and by the terms of said -summons to answer in said cause has long since expired, and the said defendant M. S. Chaplin has not answered or otherwise pleaded, and is in default for want of answer or other plea, and for want of appearance, and is so adjudged to be in default, and that each of said defendants by such default on his part is hereby held to have confessed the allegations of plaintiff’s complaint.’’

On May 27. 1916, the defendant M. S. Chaplin .filed a motion to set aside the judgment and the sale thereunder for the following reasons: That the court in rendering the judgment was without jurisdiction of the person of the defendant Chaplin and without jurisdiction over the property involved; that the affidavit filed in said cause for the purpose of obtaining service by publication is and was defective and insufficient, in this, that the same did not show that at the time of the filing of said affidavit originally on April 22 1915, the shares of stock involved in said action were within the jurisdiction of the district court of Blaine county, or within the state of Oklahoma; that the original affidavit for service by publication was never amended in -any particular except as is shown on the face thereof by interlineations with pen and ink, 'which affidavit was never reverified as amended, and was not authenticated by any officer authorized to administer oaths as being amended or reverified as of the date io-f September 25, 1915; nor does said amended affidavit purport to show on its face that on the 22d day of April, 1915.

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