Hunter v. Royal Canadian Ins. Co.

HUGHES, District Judge.

This is an action of covenant on a policy of insurance against fire. The defendant is an alien, resident in Montreal, Canada. Process was sued out of the clerk’s office of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk on the 3d January, 1878. Service of it was acknowledged by W. H. White’, attomey-at-law, as attorney for the defendant, on the 4th of the same month, in pursuance of Code, c. 36, § 20, p. 336, and under protest. The declaration was filed at the succeeding January rules, commencing on the 7th day of the month; and a common order was then entered against…