Parker v. ROSS

I am extending my concurrence into a brief discussion of “due diligence” required by a plaintiff in ascertaining *427the necessary facts to be used as a basis for an application for the publication of summons. I do this not only to indulge in an older lawyer’s luxury of giving advice to younger members of the bar, but because in cases involving summons by publication, I am not so much interested in what, under the facts of each may be reasonable diligence, which, of course, is the specific question in each such case, but rather in a pronouncement of some guiding principles for determining due…