Richardson v. Bingham

GREENE, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Vernon and Pearline Richardson, appeal from the trial court’s order of 3 November 1989, allowing the motion of William Roosevelt Bingham (defendant), and dismissing this case for insufficiency of process and insufficiency of service of process. Third-party defendant, Lonnie Sneed, Jr., is not a party to this appeal.

In pertinent part, the trial court’s order provides:

[I]t appearing to the Court that the Plaintiff attempted service on the Defendant by means of publication pursuant to Rule 4(jl) of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, that the Plaintiff was…