Karlsson v. Rabinowitz
318 F.2d 666 (4th Cir. 1963) Cited 207 timesHolding that service was proper where a copy of the summons and complaint was left with the defendant's wife at the defendant's Maryland house, in which the defendant had lived before moving ahead of his family to Arizona, where he had purchased a house intending never to return to Maryland and to move his family to Arizona, noting that the service was sufficient to satisfy the requirements of service at the defendant's “dwelling house or usual place of abode” where the service succeeded in actually apprising him of the lawsuit
Rule 4 - Summons
Fed. R. Civ. P. 4 Cited 71,368 times 127 Legal AnalysesHolding that if defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, the court—on a motion, or on its own following notice to the plaintiff—must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made by a certain time