Wiggins v. Wiggins

HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether in a suit for divorce in the Domestic Relations Branch of the Municipal Court, valid service of process may be made on a nonresident defendant by personal service outside the District, or must resort be had to service by publication. The question arises because of certain statutory enactments. In Section 105 of our original Code of 1901 (now appearing in Section 13-108 of the 1951 Code) it was provided that in various types of actions, including divorce, publication might be substituted for personal service of process on…