Slates v. International House of Pancakes, Inc.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE MILLS

delivered the opinion of the court:

We deal here with a question of service of process upon a foreign corporation. And with subaltern inquiries of agency and franchises.

On February 15, 1979, a default judgment was entered against the defendant, International House of Pancakes, a California corporation (IHOP-Cal). On February 20, 1980, the trial court entered an order quashing the service of process upon the defendant, sustaining defendant’s objections to the jurisdiction of the court to enter a default judgment and vacating the default order and written judgment.…