United States Guarantee Co. v. Giarelli

The complaint states a cause of action by plain' tiff to recover from defendant the sum of $12,276.86, which is the total with interest to the date of the complaint paid by plaintiff by reason of defendant’s default on a bond on which plaintiff was surety. The return of the officer who served the process is regular on its face and certifies that a true and attest' ed copy of the writ, summons and complaint was left at defendant’s “usual place of abode.” Upon inquiry of such officer in open court, it developed that defendant, when the suit was commenced, resided in a room rented by him in a…