Wearring v. BELK BROTHERS INC.

MITCHELL, Judge.

The plaintiffs sole assignment of error is directed to the trial court’s determination that there was insufficient service of process. In support of this assignment, the plaintiff argues that the summons was not fatally defective even though the directory paragraph contained the name of an officer of the defendant corporation instead of the name of the corporation itself since the caption contained the correct name of the defendant corporation.

The purpose of a summons is to give notice to a person to appear at a certain place and time to answer a complaint against him. 83…