J. E. Petty & Co. v. Dock Contractor Co.

DICKINSON, District Judge.

The substantial question raised in this cause is whether the process as invoked and served has brought the defendant into court. The cause has been before us a number of times, and has been argued from what would seem to have been every possible angle. Indeed, the course of the litigation is open to the criticism of an indulgence in nothing more than legal sparring over what are no more than formal procedural rights. None the less, as the defendant is raising a question of right, whatever its rights are found to be must be accorded to it. Notwithstanding the broad…