Murdock v. Blake

How courts have described this case

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• when a party fails to respond to a pleading, allegations in the pleading are “deemed admitted under Rule 8(d)”
• “Service of summons in conformance with the mode prescribed by statute is deemed jurisdictional, for it is service of process, not actual knowledge of the commencement of the action, which confers jurisdiction.”
• “Service of summons in conformance with the mode prescribed by statute is deemed jurisdictional, for it is service of process, not actual knowledge of the commencement of the action, which confers jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).