LOCKE v. PETERSON

No. 8329.

3 Utah 2d 415 (1955)

285 P.2d 1111

WHITLAND T. LOCKE, RALPH O. WILLIAMS AND HAYNE L. JARRARD, PLAINTIFFS AND RESPONDENTS, v. L.R. PETERSON, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Utah.

July 15, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Macfarlane, Max G. Halliday, Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Earl D. Tanner, Salt Lake City, for respondents.


WADE, Justice.

This is an appeal by L.R. Peterson, defendant, from the trial court's refusal to set aside a default judgment. On August 26, 1954, Earl D. Tanner, attorney for plaintiffs Whitland T. Locke, Ralph O. Williams and Hayne L. Jarrard, respondents here, handed to defendant a summons and purported copy thereof requesting him to sign the following statement which was typewritten on the front of both the original and the copy:

"Receipt of this summons...

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