Mortgage Commission v. Great Neck Improvement Co.

In this action to foreclose a mortgage on real property, the defendant Great Neck Improvement Company, a domestic corporation, served a notice of appearance and an answer containing an affirmative defense, subscribed in its corporate name, as appearing in person. The plaintiffs now move for an order striking out this answer upon the sole ground that a corporation cannot defend an action in person but must appear by a duly licensed attorney.

The question thus presented seems to have been passed upon by the courts of this State for the first time in the case of Sellent-Repent Corporation v.…