Smetal Corporation v. West Lake Investment Co.

On Rehearing.

Brown, J.

Upon the original hearing of the appeal in this case; a majority of the Court were of the opinion that the decree appealed from dismissing appellant’s bill, should be reversed because the bill so dismissed had equity, in that it showed that the appellee, West Lake Investment Co., had resorted to constructive service by publication against the defendant in the foreclosure suit, a Florida corporation, under Sections 4257-4261, Comp. Gen. Laws (Sections 1 to 5 of Chapter 11829, Acts of 1927), whereas under the facts alleged in said bill, by the exercise of reasonable…