Parsons v. Parsons

Miller, Judge:

Defendant sued plaintiff before a justice of the peace in Jackson County, and obtained a judgment for the sum of $206.45. Plaintiff not being found in the state at the time, service of process was had by delivery of a copy of the summons to his wife at his usual place of abode, as provided by section 32, chapter 50 of the Code. The judgment was rendered April 3, 1923; and plaintiff claims that he never knew of the suit until he returned home from the state of Ohio, about April 27th.

Plaintiff immediately instituted the present suit, alleging that he was a non-resident of the…