Medeiros v. Kaye

The defendant in this personal injury-action has filed a plea in abatement, claiming that the court lacks jurisdiction because a copy of the process, after service upon the commissioner of motor vehicles, was not mailed to the defendant at “his last-known address,” as required by § 52-62 of the General Statutes.

The evidence heard by the court at the hearing on the abatement plea disclosed the following facts: The defendant resided with his wife on Colonial Village Road, Ashaway, Rhode Island, from 1971 until March, 1972, when the parties separated and the defendant went to live with his…