Gregory, Tilton & Co. v. Harmon

The defendants, at the first term of the District Court, after the petition was filed in this cause, entered a special appearance and moved the court to continue the cause until the next term, for the reason that the defendants had not been properly served with notice, and that the court had no jurisdiction over them. The sufficiency of the return of the officer who made the service of the original notice, is the only question necessary to be passed upon *446in this cause. The return reads as follows, viz : “ Served the within notice on the said defendants, by showing the same to the said Harmon;…