Capital Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Hammett
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Contract against a nonresident, wherein service was made by attaching as property certain real estate in the State, and leaving for him a copy of the writ with L. C. Hammett, his agent and attorney. The case was entered at the March Term, 1915, Washington County Court, and was continued from term to term until the March Term, 1920, when an order of notice was issued and served upon the defendant in New York.
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Action op Contract against a nonresident, wherein service was made by attaching as property certain real estate in the State, and leaving for him a copy of the writ with L. C. Hammett, his agent and attorney. The case was entered at the March Term, 1915, Washington County Court, and was continued from term to term until the March Term, 1920, when an order of notice was issued and served upon the defendant in New York. Heard on defendant’s motion to dismiss at the September Term, 1920, Wilson, J., presiding. Motion overruled. The defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is an action of contract against a nonresident defendant,' wherein service was made by attaching as his property certain real estate in the town of Bast Montpelier and leaving for him a copy of the writ with L. C. Hammett, his agent and attorney. The case was entered at the March term, 1915, *49of the Washington county court, and without further service on or notice to the defendant, it was continued from term to term until the March term, 1920, when an order'of notice was issued and served upon the defendant in the state of New York. Thereupon he appeared specially and filed a plea in…
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