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§2603. Effect of service on trustee; service on

 
partnership

 
Service on the trustee binds all goods, effects or credits of
the principal defendant entrusted to and deposited in his the
trustee's possession, to respond to the final judgment in the
action, as when attached by ordinary process if process
describing the principal defendant with reasonable certainty is
received at a time and in a manner that affords the trustee a
reasonable opportunity to act on it. When a partnership is made a
trustee on trustee process, service upon one member of the firm
shall be is a sufficient attachment of the property of the
principal defendant in the possession of the firm, provided such
if that service be is made at any place of business of the firm
or, if such that service is made elsewhere, that legal service be
is afterward made upon the other members of the firm.

 
Sec. 4. 14 MRSA §2604 is amended to read:

 
§2604. County where action brought; divorce; financial

 
institution as trustee; counterclaim

 
If all the trustees live in the same county, the action shall
must be brought there; if they reside in different counties, in
any county in which one of them resides; and in a trustee process
against a corporation, its residence shall be is deemed to be in
the county in which it has its established or usual place of
business, held its last annual meeting or usually holds its
meetings; except that an action in which a railroad corporation
is named and alleged as trustee may be brought in any county in
which said the railroad corporation runs and operates its road;
and except that an action in which a banking financial
institution authorized to do business in this State or credit
union authorized to do business in this State is named and
alleged as trustee may be brought in any county in which said
banking the financial institution or credit union maintains a
place of business. Service may be made on the manager of such
banking institution in the county having jurisdiction over the
parties named in the action.

 
When trustee process is used in connection with the
commencement of an action for divorce, the action must be brought
in the county in which the court has jurisdiction over the
parties named in the action, and the alleged trustee, although
residing in another county, may be summoned to appear in the
county in which said the court has jurisdiction over the parties
named in the action and must answer and make disclosure in such
that county. The court sitting therein shall have full power and
authority to award from the funds found to be held by the alleged


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