Borello v. Trustees of Central Presbyterian Church

Order of the Appellate Term, of the Supreme Court, First Department (Parness, J. P., McCooe and Glen, JJ.), entered February 22, 1995, which affirmed the order of Civil Court, New York County (Wilfred O’Connor, J.), entered on or about May 25, 1994, granting defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant demonstrated that its worker who was served was not authorized to receive process. There was no competent evidence adduced at the traverse hearing of any inquiry by the process server regarding the authority of the person served,…