Thoenes v. Tatro

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• college student in Colorado used parents’ address for driver license and vehicle registration but usual place of abode was his apartment in Colorado for purposes of service of summons
• “If the defendant appears and requests relief which can be granted only on the hypothesis that the court has jurisdiction, the appearance indisputably would be general and not special.”
• “It is to be noted, then, that the question of what constitutes defendant’s ‘usual place of abode’ is not one of abstract definition, but must be answered with the notice requirements of due process clearly in mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).