Dimmerling v. . Andrews

Andrews, J.-

As it stood before 1920 the Code of Civil. Procedure permitted service by publication, upon, a non-resident who could not be found within the state (secs. 438, 439), where the claim was for,a sum of money only (sec. 1217) in a certain class of actions (sec. 635). Before a judgment by default was allowed, however, a warrant of attachment.granted in the action must have been levied upon the property of the defendant (sec. 1217), and the judgment was conclusive only as to the property which had been so attached (sec. 443, subd. 6). Only so far as the judgment may be satisfied from…