Godsell v. United Guar. Residential Ins.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an affidavit of diligent search deficient on its face voids service by publication
• emphasizing that “[service by publication may be used only when alternative service [i.e., service by any other means] cannot be effected”
• holding service by publication void where, inter alia, affidavit failed to state “whether the address [of the person to be served] is unknown to the affiant”
• finding that final judgment of foreclosure was void where the constructive service on defendant was ineffective due to the plaintiffs failure to do a diligent search and failure to include, inter alia, any reference to the defendant’s possible Canadian address
• finding no due diligence where plaintiff was informed that defendant lived in Canada, but made no effort to discover her Canadian address

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).