Brent Robert Orme, Petitioner v. the Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for the County…

Summary

The court granted mandamus and directed the district court to accept personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant who was served by leaving the summons and complaint with his wife at his usual place of abode. It held that the long-arm statute permits service outside Nevada by the same method authorized for serving a person of like kind within Nevada, including substituted service at the defendant's abode. The court reached the merits rather than treating the defendant's failure to answer the writ petition as a confession of error.