Scott Co. v. Jones Hooker v. Jones

Appeal oe S. D. Scott & Co.

DeviN, J.

The court below ruled that the purported service of process by publication upon the defendant Jones was invalid, and that the judgment based thereon created no lien on the fund derived from the sale of defendant’s real property. The appeal presents for review the propriety of this ruling.

The only attack upon the validity of the proceedings whereby this plaintiff sought to bring the defendant Jones into court was that the' publication in the newspaper of the summons and notice of attachment was insufficient. The statute, G.S. 1-99, prescribes that service of…