Havens v. Havens

The defendant has filed a special appearance for the purpose of pleading to the jurisdiction and sets forth in his plea that at the time of the commencement of the action he was a patient at the Hartford Hospital. The return of the sheriff states that he “left a like true and attested copy of the within original writ, summons and complaint, at .the usual place of abode of the within named defendant Charles E. Havens, at No. 52 Bodwell Street, in the said Town of Hartford, with my doings hereon endorsed.”

Section 7774 of the General Statutes of Connecticut provides that “process in any civil…