Case Name: JONES's EXECUTORS versus STOKES
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1796-04
Citations: 1 Mart. 36
Docket Number: 
Parties: JONES’s EXECUTORS versus STOKES.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 36–36

Head Matter:
Halifax,
April Term, 1796.
In Equity.
JONES’s EXECUTORS versus STOKES.
Injuction bill.
THE defendant pleaded in this case that the process &c. had not been served on him ten days before court, as the act of Assembly directs; but it appearing that it had never been served upon him at anytime: 1782, 11, 432.

Opinion:
The court,
Haywood, J. and Stone,J.
ordered the plea to be overruled: because the act only gives the advantage to the defendant for an illegal service, but not when there is no service at all.