Sautter v. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

The sole question argued upon this appeal is that of the jurisdiction of the Justice’s Court,it being claimed that the service of the summons was not such as to give the justice jurisdiction. No other point is argued. It seems that the defendant is a foreign corporation. It conducts a chain of stores in numerous cities throughout the country, having two in the city of Utica. The summons was served upon the manager of one of these stores, no apparent effort being made to make service upon any one else. Two principal questions are presented; one being that the party served is *379not a “ managing…