3 Yeates 258
Decided September 15, 1801
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1801-09-15
Summons case. Sheriff returns summons served by leaving a copy with Chandler Price, the defendant’s partner, at his last place of abode. Rule to shew cause, why the service of the summons should not be set aside.
Cited by 1 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1785
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Decided 1801-09-15
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¶1The defendant cannot be arrested, because not within the state; he is not subject to a domestic attachment, because he has not absconded ; nor to a foreign attachment, because clearly he is an inhabitant of the state. 1 Dali. 153. His home is within'the city of Philadelphia.
¶2The rule must be discharged.