20 S.E. 391 | N.C. | 1894
The administrators filed their final account on 23 August, 1883. An action was begun on 5 March, 1888, against them and the sureties on their bond for the nonpayment of a judgment in favor of the plaintiff relator which had been obtained against their intestate. The summons was not served on the appellee, one of the sureties on the bond, nor was there a chain of alias and pluries summonses kept up against her. On 11 February, 1891, a summons was issued against her and a succession of summonses was kept up until she was served, on 15 March, 1892. The failure to keep up the chain of summonses was a discontinuance of the action as to her. Etheridge v. Woodley,
Affirmed.
Cited: Parker v. Harden,
(236)