As Amended
SEC. 85-7-145. Summons of defendants.
The defendants shall be summoned, as in other actions at law, to appear and defend the action; and in case any necessary party defendant shall be a non-resident of or absent from the state, or cannot be found, he may be made a party by publication, as in cases of non-resident or absent defendants in chancery, requiring him to appear on a day to be therein named; and in default of appearance, the same proceedings shall be had as if such defendant had been duly summoned and made default.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 39, art. 8; 1871, Sec. 1611; 1880, Sec. 1386; 1892, Sec. 2704; 1906, Sec. 3064; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2424; 1930, Sec. 2264; 1942, Sec. 362.