Adams v. . Packer

Stacy, C. J.,

after stating tbe case: In the absence of personal service duly had on a nonresident defendant in an action in personam, substituted service by publication is effectual only when property in this State, belonging to the defendant, is brought under the control of the court by some appropriate process, and even then such service extends only to the property seized, or brought under control of the court, as no personal judgment can be rendered in such a case. Everitt v. Austin, 169 N. C., 622; Winfree v. Bagley, 102 N. C., 515.

Speaking to the subject in Long v. Ins. Co., 114 N. C.,…