Koll v. Pickford

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

The question here is very limited — whether the original defendant, in this suit entered in Allegheny County, can secure legal service upon the additional defendant at its residence in Washington County by deputizing the Sheriff of that County to serve the writ. The learned court below held that such could not be done, that the court had no jurisdiction over the additional defendant, and this appeal followed.

The pertinent facts are these: On September 9,1944, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, there was an accidental collision between an automobile in which…