Mullins v. Marks

Appellant, defendant below, takes this interlocutory appeal from an “order denying motion to quash process and service of process.” We reverse.

Appellant, a North Carolina resident, was served with process while waiting in the anteroom of a Broward Circuit Court *943Judge’s chambers to testify. The suit being litigated at the time of service was a post-dissolution of marriage matter between appellant and his former wife. The complaint served on appellant in the courthouse was filed by appellant’s ex-wife’s attorney and was based upon defamation of character.

In that there was no identity of parties…