Sternbeck v. Buck

The paramount question posed by this appeal is whether, according to the findings, the delivery by the process server to the defendant’s wife on the front driveway of their home of copies of summons and complaint and her promise to see that her “husband gets them” constitutes service of process, the husband having been out of view 100 feet distant in the rear, building a barn, process server having neither proceeded farther to the rear nor attempted to contact him.

Mr. and Mrs. Buck first sued appellant for damages to their automobile by reason of the allegedly wilful acts of appellant (action…