Tuchband v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment and order of general term, first department, reversing order at special term vacating service of summons and complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The plaintiff’s cause of action arose in the state of Missouri. The defendant is a foreign corporation, and there has been no designation by it of any person upon whom service of process may be made in the state of New York. One Charles Oberg is described in the defendant’s circulars and time tables, and in its list of “ officers and agents,” as its “ General Agent, Passenger Department, 261 Broadway, New York,” and of himself says he has charge “ of the correspondence and business matters relating to carriage of passengers, but has notMng to do with the freight department.” The place…
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- United States v. Bedouin S. S. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1908