Maryland Casualty Co. v. Martin

I. Certain non-resident defendants were served with process outside the state and have entered no appearance. No valid decree in the suit determining their rights can be made. They are beyond the court’s jurisdiction and have not submitted to it. No. conditions of status exist, and no property or res in which they may be interested and over which the court has jurisdiction is a subject-matter of the suit. While a debt may have the situs of the debtor and be property there (Robinson v. Carroll, 87 N. H. 114), the issue here is not of the rights of claimants to property but whether the claim of…