Hall v. Weil-Kalter Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Thomas H. Hall and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of October, 1921, confirming the report of a referee appointed to take proofs and report and granting plaintiffs’ motion to set aside the service of the summons herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
When this motion first came on to be heard at Special Term, a referee was appointed to take proof and report. The facts established by the evidence áre as follows:
The defendant is a foreign corporation, having its principal place of business in St. Louis, Mo. It maintains a sales office at No. 200 Fifth avenue in the city of New York. The lease of said office is in its name. The name of the corporation is on the door and on the bulletin board in the main hall, and its name is carried in the telephone book showing that it has a telephone in these premises. Samples of the defendant’s…
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