Rome Insurance v. Corbett

A bill was filed in the Circuit Court for Hamilton County against local defendants and also certain non-resident corporations, seeking to impound a fund in that county arising out of an alleged fraudulent transaction consummated in that county. Constructive service, in perfect accordance with the statute, was had by publication, and the non-resident corporations appeared specially to quash the service upon the theory that the sole relief prayed was in personam, and that therefore the statute authorizing constructive service by publication does not apply. This motion having been denied these…