Daily Archives: July 27, 2007

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Bad Form – Failure to Serve a Summons with Mandatory Language Proves Costly for Landlord

On June 8, 2006 I wrote in an article posted on this site about the new summons for residential unlawful detainer actions in Washington.  In that article I wrote: Amendments to the Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act went into effect yesterday….It is unclear what…courts will do when inevitably many landlord plaintiffs – acting pro se or with attorneys not familiar with the new law – come into court having served the old eviction summons. A decision published last month by Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals held that a landlord had wrongfully evicted a tenant because the landlord’s attorney […]