Maurice Baker v. David Hawkins and Christie Hawkins

Lawrence-Berrey, J. —

¶1 We must determine whether service on a contractor, who spent every day for one month working at the defendants’ home, returning only to his home at night to sleep, is service on a person “then resident therein” for purposes of former RCW 4.28.080(15) (2012) (now codified at RCW 4.28.080(16)). We hold that because the contractor was not “actually living in” the defendants’ home as required by Salts v. Estes, 133 Wn.2d 160, 170, 943 P.2d 275 (1997), service was deficient under the statute. We therefore affirm the trial court’s order dismissing this action as barred by…