Hammondsport Law, Loan & Collection Ass'n v. Kinzell
New York County Courts
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant, by E. B. Lawrrowe, Esq., justice of the peace of the town of Urbana, Steuben county, N. Y., on the 11th day of January, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.
The defendant appeals from a judgment rendered against her January 11, 1902, and the only ground claimed by the appellant for the reversal of the judgment is that the person who made the service of the summons, one George J. Jump, was not in fact a constable of the town at the time he served the summons, and that he had not *506been deputized by the justice to make the service, and the service was, therefore, illegal and void.
It appears that on the 14th day of November, 1900, said George J. Jump was legally appointed a constable of the town of Urbana, by the town board, to fill a vacancy that…
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