Crawford Realty & Development Corp. v. Woodlawn Trust & Savings Bank

This was action filed by the appellee, Crawford Realty and Development Corporation, to quiet title to various tracts of vacant real estate described in the complaint. Service by publication was had upon certain defendants against whom default was taken and a decree quieting title for said appellee entered on June 2, 1936. Certain of the appellants filed petitions praying that the decree be set aside, amended or altered, on the ground that service of process by publication upon them was not proper.

The appellee answered the petitions, the cause was referred to a master and, upon the…