Midwest Acceptance Corp. v. Blount

CRIST, Judge.

Appellant, Midwest Acceptance Corporation, appeals from an order of the trial court setting aside a default judgment, quashing a garnishment and ordering a refund of garnished funds. We reverse and remand.

Midwest filed suit against respondent, Danner Blount, in the St. Louis County Circuit Court in 1979. Service was made by the sheriff on March 9, 1980. His return service was made:

BY LEAVING A TRUE COPY hereof at the usual place of abode of the defendant D.L. Blount and with a member of his family over the age of fifteen years in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, this…