Surratt v. Surratt’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““We hold, under the facts revealed by the record, the defendant was a non-resident of North Carolina at the time service of process, was made upon 'him outside the State and that the judgment entered against the defendant at the December Session 1963 of the Superior Court of Randolph County was hot a judgment in personam, and that the orders adjudging the defendant in contempt for failing to comply therewith were improvidently entered and are hereby reversed and set aside.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fleek v. Fleek