Lilly-Brackett Co. v. Sonnemann

"This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage given by the defendants Sonnemann and Brackett to secure their promissory note for $10,000 made on the 7th day of December, 1896, and payable to plaintiff, a Massachusetts corporation, one year after date. Both note and mortgage were executed in Massachusetts. The action was commenced on November 23, 1906. On the same day the court made an order providing for the service of summons on the defendant Sonnemann by publication. Pursuant to this order, which was based upon a sufficient affidavit, the summons was duly published, and a copy thereof,…