Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. v. Marcalus Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Weintraub, C. J.

Defendant, Marcalus Manufacturing Co., Inc., filed a counterclaim in which it included as a party defendant the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (hereafter R. F. 0.), a wholly-owned corporation of the United States. Upon the thesis that the counterclaim was in rem or quasi in rem, process was served upon R. F. C. outside this State by mail pursuant to court order. R. F. O. moved to quash the service. Pending disposition of the motion, R. F. C. was dissolved, whereupon a motion to abate the action against it was made. Marcalus…