Smith v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that because personal service of process on nonresident defendant has same effect as order of publication, in personam jurisdiction cannot be obtained in this manner
• reasoning that because personal service of process on nonresident defendant has same effect as order of publication, in personam jurisdiction cannot be obtained in this manner
• recognizing necessity of personal jurisdiction for judgments founded upon personal liability
• recognizing necessity of personal jurisdiction for judgments founded upon personal liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Board of Ed. of Wyoming County v. BOARD OF PUB. WKS.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-06-23· cited 41×
• Overfield v. Collins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-02-11· cited 33×
• Leslie Equipment Co. v. Wood Resources Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-10-30· cited 20×
• Acord v. Acord
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-04-01· cited 15×
• Brouzas v. City of Morgantown
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1958-11-25· cited 11×
• Teachout v. Larry Sherman's Bakery, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-07-22· cited 10×
• McClay v. Mid-Atlantic Country Magazine
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-07-15· cited 7×
• Fabian v. Kennedy
  N.D. West Virginia· 1971-11-18· cited 7×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bray v. Landergren
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-01-11· cited 61×
• Witten v. St. Clair
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1886-02-25· cited 28×
• Smith v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-06-09· cited 25×
• Town of Camden ex rel. Mollohan v. O'Brien
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-10-13· cited 9×
• Bailey v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-01-09· cited 8×
• State v. Young
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1923-05-15· cited 7×