Case Name: Holbrook v. Hide
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1792-01
Citations: 1 Root 387
Docket Number: 
Parties: Holbrook v. Hide.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 387–387

Head Matter:
Holbrook v. Hide.
The service of a process against an absconding debtor, if an inhabitant of this state, must be by leaving a copy at his last usual place of abode.
AotioN on note by attachment, against Hide as an. absconding debtor, in which he is described to he late of Derby, etc. now resident in Brunswick in the state of Vermont.
Plea in abatement — That no property of the defendant’s had been attached; that no copy had been loft at his last usual abode in said Derby; nor otherwise than by leaving copies with Nibbe and Parsons, as attorneys factors, etc. to said Hide. Demurrer.

Opinion:
Judgment — Plea sufficient. The statute is express, that a copy shall he left at the defendant's last place of abode.