Hulbert v. Hope Mutual Insurance
New York Supreme Court
The defendant is a corporation, created by the laws of Connecticut. The only proceeding yet taken in the action, is the issuing and service of a summons. The service was made by delivering a copy to John W. Leeds, in the office of the defendant in the city of ¡New York. Leeds is the president of the company, and resides in Stamford in Connecticut, being temporarily in ¡New York on business, when the service was made.
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The defendant is a corporation, created by the laws of Connecticut. The only proceeding yet taken in the action, is the issuing and service of a summons. The service was made by delivering a copy to John W. Leeds, in the office of the defendant in the city of ¡New York. Leeds is the president of the company, and resides in Stamford in Connecticut, being temporarily in ¡New York on business, when the service was made. The action is upon a policy of insurance effected upon the life of the late husband of the plaintiff The contract was made with an agent of the defendant in the city of Buffalo,…
1Opinion of the Court
Sill, Justice.
The object of this motion, as stated in the body of the affidavit on the part of the defendant, and by the counsel on the argument, is to interpose an objection to the jurisdiction of the court. The *276argument is, that without an attachment and seizure of property, there is no jurisdiction in rem.; and by service of a summons on the president of a foreign corporation, the court does not obtain jurisdiction of the person (so to speak) of the defendant: that although the term of the code would seem to confer jurisdiction by such service, still if such was its design, it is in this…
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