Pappas v. Steamship Aristidis

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

No in rem process having been effected, the libelant, who qualified as the personal representative of the decedent’s estate on September 16, 1964, ob-tamed, a purported service upon the %n personam respondent by serving the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia. The action was filed in this Court only two days after the libelant’s qualification as administrator. The respondent has filed a motion to quash the service of process. The question for determination is, of course, whether the in personam respondent was doing business or transacting…