Southern Mills, Inc. v. . Armstrong

The question posed by this appeal is: Was the personal service on a resident, one of three directors of a domestic corporation, and service by publication upon two nonresidents, the other two directors of such corporation, sufficient to subject said two nonresidents to the jurisdiction of the court? We think, and so hold, that the answer is in the negative.

Due service of process is necessary to subject a party to the jurisdiction of the court. Only personal service was recognized at common law, and when substituted service is authorized by statute it is strictissimi juris, and being of rigid…