Parker v. Reddick

Referring to the parties to this suit as they appeared in the trial court, J. H. Reddick, as plaintiff, sued the defendant, Parker, for damages for slander. Process was served upon the defendant who thereupon pleaded in abatement of the summons as follows:

“Now comes your defendant Reeder Parker, a. resident of Humphreys County, Tennessee, and pleas in abatement to the summons and subsequent proceedings issued and served upon him in this cause for the following reasons, to wit:

‘ ‘ The said summons was served upon the defendant on the Twenty-Second (22nd) day of January, 1953, by J. B. Bracey,…