226 W. Va. 445 - Beane v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[w]hen we consider that the object of the statute was, to enable the defendant to know, or have notice of the action against him, that he might protect his rights therein, it is clear the statute meant his usual place of abode eo instanti, that the summons was posted, not a place of casual abode, but one of present abiding. It would be absurd to hold, that a boarding house, or place where a person stopped temporarily when visiting a city or country on matters of business or socially, should be considered his usual place of abode when his visit or stay had ended and he absent, so as to make the posting of a summons on the front door thereof legal notice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 229 W. Va. 160 - Savard v. Cheat River Outfitters, Inc.