Becker v. East Asiatic Co.

We are of the opinion that the language of section 289 of the Civil Practice Act is sufficiently broad to permit the examination before trial of a party by examining a corporate managing agent thereof through a designated officer of the latter. The question, although raised, was not decided in Blasius v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co. (187 App. Div. 347), but in Henriques v. Gauthiod Marine Ins. Co., Ltd. (205 id. 8), the same court (Appellate Division, First Department) upheld service of a summons on a corporate defendant where the summons had been delivered to the treasurer *569of another corporation…