Medlin v. Church

How courts have described this case

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• applying indivisible judgment rule to reverse judgment against both defendants in vicarious liability case where service was not perfected upon one defendant
• wherein it was assumed that jurisdiction over a nonresident father could be predicated on the family purpose doctrine, although the judgment against him was reversed due to a failure to comply strictly with the service provisions of the statute
• “Since service was not perfected upon appellant’s son according to statute, the judgment entered jointly against both appellant and his son must be reversed as to the son. Being indivisible under these circumstances, the judgment must also be reversed as to appellant.”

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