Morehead v. Chaffe

Citations

• 52 Miss. 161

Syllabus

<p>1. Process : Execution thereof. Return Toy the sheriff.</p> <p>• “Where the return of a process by the sheriff, when read in connection with the summons to be executed, and to which it refers, sufficiently indicates that the defendant was not to be found in the county after diligent search; that a copy of it was delivered to a Mr. Roby, of the family of defendant; that he was six- ■ teen years of age and willing to receive it, and did receive it at the defendant’s usual place of. abode, in the said county, is sufficient to uphold a judgment by default rendered upon it. The fact that the Christian name of the person with whom'the summons is left is not mentioned is immaterial.</p>