Greene v. Lindsey

Acting under a Kentucky statute allowing eviction notice by posting when a tenant "cannot be found," Sheriff Greene (plaintiff, in the sense of bringing the underlying certified question posture) posted eviction notices on the doors of Lindsey and other public-housing tenants (defendants), who never appeared for their hearings and had default judgments entered against them; the tenants sued, claiming they never actually received notice because such posted notices were commonly and predictably removed by other tenants or children in that housing project before the intended recipients ever saw them.