Turnbow v. Powers

WILLIAMS, Justice:

The facts giving rise to the instant litigation in this court are as follows. Mr. C. E. Turnbow sued Mr. Carl D. Turnbow in Lincoln County. The plaintiff apparently had a summons prepared and delivered to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office with instructions to await word when it could be served.

An apparent opportunity arose, the sheriff was notified that the defendant in the trial court, our present petitioner, was at *404his ranch in northern Lincoln County and Deputy Mathes went there to serve him. He learned the defendant in that case had gone to Chandler to visit an…