In a case where a copy, etc. of the petition of appeal was served to the address of the appellee stated in the petition of appeal, but it was impossible to serve the petition due to the impossibility to identify him/her, and the presiding judge ordered the appellant to correct his/her address and rejected the petition of appeal on the ground that he/she did not correct his/her address, the case holding that the court below's order dismissing the petition of appeal is unlawful, since it erred in ordering

In a case where a duplicate of the petition of appeal and a notice of first date for pleading stated in the petition of appeal were served to the address of the appellee, but it was impossible to serve the petition on the ground that the presiding judge ordered the appellant to revise the address, and rejected the petition of appeal on the ground that he did not correct the address after he ordered the appellant to correct the address, the case holding that the court below's order dismissing the petition of appeal was unlawful, on the ground that it was erroneous for ordering the correction of address on the ground that it was impossible to serve the petition of appeal on the sole ground that it was impossible to serve the petition of appeal because the address indicated in the petition of appeal was unknown and the document was not served on the other address indicated in the record of trial, and that it was not

Articles 401 and 402 of the Civil Procedure Act

Re-appellant

Seoul Southern District Court Order 201Na6309 dated August 23, 2011

The order of the court below is reversed, and the case is remanded to the Seoul Southern District Court Panel Division.

The grounds of reappeal are examined.

According to the records, the written application for the instant payment order or the written judgment of the court of first instance states that the address of the defendant (Appellant; hereinafter “Appellant”) is “Yecheon-gu 12 Complex 1203 Dong Dong-dong, Incheon-dong (hereinafter address 1 omitted),” and the petition of appeal submitted by the re-appellant (Plaintiff, appellant; hereinafter “Re-Appellant”) also states that the address of the appellee was stated in the above address. The court below served the appellant a duplicate of the petition of appeal and the notice of first date for pleading on July 15, 201, but it was impossible for the court below to serve the appellant as “the addressee’s unknown address.” The presiding judge of the court below ordered the appellant to correct the address of the appellee on July 15, 201, but did not correct the address, and the presiding judge of the court below rejected the petition of appeal of this case on August 23, 2011 on the ground that the Re-Appellant did not correct the address.

However, according to the records, the payment order of this case was served at the court of first instance as "Secheon-gu, Jungcheon-gu, 7 A-18 ( Address 2 omitted)", the working place of the appellee, and the decision of the court of first instance also entered the same place as the place where the appellee was served, and the appellant appointed a legal representative at the court of first instance to raise an objection against the payment order of this case and stated his address as "Secheon-gu, Incheon-dong 1 A-34-12 ( Address 3 omitted)" in the letter of delegation of lawsuit. Thus, the court below should have ordered the above address to be served, which appears in the records, and ordered the correction of address in cases where the service is not carried out at all.

Nevertheless, the lower court’s order dismissing the petition of appeal of this case on the ground that it was erroneous for the lower court to order the correction of address by merely failing to take such measures but merely failing to serve the address indicated in the petition of appeal by identifying the address, and thus, the lower court’s order dismissing the petition of appeal of this case was unlawful.

The ground of reappeal assigning this error is with merit.

Therefore, the order of the court below is reversed, and the case is remanded to the court below for a new trial and determination. It is so decided as per Disposition by the assent of all participating Justices on the bench.

Justices Jeon Soo-ahn (Presiding Justice)