Couts v. Maryland Casualty Co.

McNULTY, Chief Judge.

The question in this interlocutory appeal is the sufficiency of substituted service.

Appellant was named by defendant Maryland Casualty Company as a third-party defendant along with others including Evelyn Couts, her mother-in-law. The sheriff’s return shows that personal service was made at appellant’s home on the mother-in-law both for purposes of process on the mother-in-law individually and for substituted service on appellant. It undisput-edly appears that the mother-in-law was visiting at appellant’s home but had not been living there for any extended period. For…