JACOB v. ROBERTS

No. 169.

223 U.S. 261 (1912)

JACOB v. ROBERTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Sam Ferry Smith, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. William J. Mossholder, with whom Mr. Samuel Herrick was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

The question involved is whether a judgment quieting title to a piece of land in California against plaintiffs in error upon substituted process of the publication of the summons under the statutes of that State constitutes due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

The judgment was rendered in 1897, and eight...

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