Legal Opinion
Montesdeoca v. Krams
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided February 3, 2003PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Charles J. Markey, J.
The legal issue posed in this motion to vacate a judgment, submitted without opposition, is whether service can be proper if made upon a private mailbox address.
In the present case, the parties were involved in a motor vehicle accident. The police report listed alternative addresses for the defendant. However, in serving the summons and complaint in this case, the plaintiff’s process server served defendant at the private mailbox he maintained at a commercial store named Express Repair, 2025 Stillwell Avenue, in Kings County, New York.
*621The defendant did…
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