Wyckoff v. Packard

A clerk in the office of plaintiff’s attorneys, .after many fruitless efforts to serve defendant, who was known to plaintiff to be a resident of Brooklyn, wrote to defendant the following letter :

‘•'New York, October‘28, 1887.

“ Dear Sir,

“ I will call to see you to-morrow, at the office of the Griffin Mfg. Co., in Cortlandt street, at about 12 o’clock noon.

“ Yours, etc.,

“W. F. Cronin.”

“ Mr. Edwin Packard.”

The defendant, supposing that some party desired a business interview, attended, and the writer of the letter served upon him the summons and complaint, which service defendant now moves to…