Williams v. Williams

In December 2002, Addie Ward Williams ("the plaintiff"), acting through counsel, filed a complaint in the Monroe Circuit Court seeking a judgment cancelling a deed that purported to have been executed by the plaintiff and that conveyed a number of lots located in Monroe County to the plaintiff's son, James Clayton Williams, Jr. ("the defendant"). After personal service of process upon the defendant was attempted at two separate addresses in Huntsville, Alabama, in January 2003 and February 2003, the plaintiff filed a motion on February 11, 2003, seeking an order permitting service by…