Higgins v. Hampshire Products, Inc.

This is an appeal from an order of the Washtenaw circuit court dismissing plaintiffs’ declaration for claimed lack of jurisdiction.

The material, facts are not in dispute. Plaintiffs, as a copartnership and residents of Wayne county, instituted the present action in Washtenaw county by filing a declaration with rule to plead indorsed thereon. On the same day a deputy sheriff of Washtenaw county served the declaration with rule to plead upon LeRoy Briggs, an accountant of defendant corporation, at its office at 495 Redmond road, Milan, Michigan. Thereafter, the deputy sheriff filed a return…