North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Whitworth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “absolute obeisance to the minutest detail” is not required to establish strict compliance
• finding defective service when “Life” was omitted from company’s name on return of citation and registered agent served was not registered agent of company
• finding defective service when \Life\ was omitted from company's name on return of citation and registered agent served was not registered agent of company
• “If the defendant’s name is consistently wrong, but the record shows that the correct defendant is served and is not misled by being misnamed, then the defendant must appear and plead the misnomer or risk having the default judgment imposed against him withstand direct attack.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).