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CIVIL PROCEDURE.
[CHAP. VIII.

Against an agency.Sect. 64. Where the defendant is an incorporated insurance company, and the action is brought in a county in which there is an agency thereof, the service may be upon the chief officer of such agency.

Against agent of foreign corporation.Sect. 65. Where the defendant is a foreign corporation, having a managing agent in this territory, the service may be upon such agent.

Against a minor.Sect. 66. When the defendant is a minor under the age of fourteen years, the service must be upon him, and upon his guardian or father; or, if neither of these can be found, then upon his mother, or the person having the care or control of the infant, or with whom he lives. If neither of these can be found, or if the minor be more than fourteen years of age, service on him alone shall be sufficient. The manner of service may be the same as in the case of adults.

CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE.

Service by publication, in what cases.Sect. 67. Service may be made by publication in either of the following cases: In actions brought under the forty-second and forty-third sections of this code, where any or all of the defendants reside out of the territory. In actions brought to establish or set aside a will, where any or all of the defendants reside out of the territory. In actions brought against a non-resident of this territory, or a foreign corporation, having in this territory property or debts owing to them, sought to be taken by any of the provisional remedies, or to be appropriated in any way. In actions which relate to, or the subject of which is, real or personal property in this territory, where any defendant has or claims a lien or interest, actual or contingent therein, or the relief demanded consists wholly or partially in excluding him from any interest therein, and such defendant is a non-resident of the territory or a foreign corporation. And in all actions where the defendant, being a resident of the territory, has departed therefrom, or from the county of his residence, with intent to delay or defraud his creditors, or to avoid the service of a summons, or keeps himself concealed therein with like intent.

Affidavit necessary that other service cannot be made.Sect. 68. Before the service can be made by publication, an affidavit must be filed, that service of a summons cannot be made within this territory, on the defendant or defendants, to be served by publication, and that the case is one of