Brays Island Plantation, Inc. v. Harper

Brailsford, Justice.

Brays Island Plantation, Inc., undertook to commence an action in the Court of Common Pleas for Richland County against Marion Harper, Jr., a resident of New York, by service of a summons on one Charles E. Lane at Columbia, South Carolina, on April 29, 1964. Within due time, the defendant made a special appearance for the purpose of objecting to the jurisdiction of the court and moved to quash the service upon grounds relating to the claimed insufficiency of the summons, which was not accompanied by a copy of the complaint, as to its contents, and to the claimed…