Will the court inform the defendant by text message?

Legal analysis: if the people's court applies summary procedure, it can notify the defendant by SMS. Under normal circumstances, the people's court will apply ordinary procedures in the trial of civil cases, and will notify the defendant by summons, and serve the defendant in legal form, not by SMS. However, if the people's court applies a summary procedure to hear a case, it may notify the defendant by sending a short message or other simple means, so that the defendant can bring a lawsuit.

Legal basis: Article 85 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Procedure Law is directly served on the addressee. If the addressee is a citizen, I will not give it to his adult family to sign for it; If the addressee is a legal person or other organization, it shall be signed by the legal representative of the legal person, the principal responsible person of other organizations or the responsible person of the legal person or organization; If the addressee has an agent ad litem, he may send it to his agent for signature; If the addressee appoints an agent to the people's court, it shall send it to the agent for signature.

The date of delivery is the date when the adult family members, legal persons or other organizations of the addressee are responsible for receiving and the litigation agent or agent signs for it. Article 159 When trying a simple civil case, the basic people's court and the court dispatched by it may summon the parties and witnesses, serve litigation documents and try the case in a summary way, but the rights of the parties to state their opinions shall be guaranteed.