New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Estes

This bill in equity by an issuer of certain surety bonds, as to which the defendant Estes is an indemnitor, seeks to reach and apply in satisfaction of any present or future liability of Estes to the plaintiff certain shares of stock owned by Estes but in the possession of the defendant American Employers Insurance Company (American). The only service on Estes, a resident of Dallas, Texas, was substituted service of notice pursuant to Rule 14 of the Superior Court (1954).

American filed a motion “that the Court decline to take jurisdiction of this ease for the reason that complete jus tice…