Nielsen v. Braland

How courts have described this case

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• where “defendant was in close proximity to the processor server, was touched with summons, and the summons was laid in a place easily accessible to him”
• when process server touched the defendant with summons, which was then laid in place easily accessible to defendant, service was adequate although defendant refused to pick up the process or accept service
• “if the process server and the defendant are within speaking distance of each other, and such action is taken as to convince a reasonable person that personal service is being attempted, service cannot be avoided by physical refusing to accept the summons.”
• “If the process server and the defendant are within speaking distance of each other, and such action is taken as to convince a reasonable person that personal service is being attempted, service cannot be avoided by physically refusing to accept the summons.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).