JOHNSON v. STEVENS

No. 14737.

265 S.E.2d 764 (1980)

George A. JOHNSON v. W. Jack STEVENS, Circuit Judge, etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

May 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darcy Veach, Hamlin, for petitioner.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., Lawrence R. Frail, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent.


CAPLAN, Justice:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the petitioner, George Johnson, seeks to compel the respondent, W. Jack Stevens, Judge of the Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuit, to permit an alternate means of service of process in his divorce action or to direct that payment for service of process by publication be made from some public fund.

We find that the due process clauses of our State and Federal Constitutions and the concept of equal protection...

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