Rudd v. Rudd

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellant-wife, plaintiff below, seeks reversal of a ruling by the lower court granting appellee-husband’s motion to quash the return of service on the ground that service on him while attending court was invalid.

Appellee, a member of the United States Navy stationed in Connecticut, commenced this litigation by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus June 26, 1970,-in the Court of General Sessions, seeking custody of his three minor children. While appellee was seated in the courtroom, waiting for the hearing on the order to show cause which had issued on the…