Kadet-Kruger & Co. v. Celanese Corporation of America

WILL, District Judge.

In this diversity case, defendants Cyril C. and John K. Ryan did not respond with an answer or other plea for more than four months after they were personally served with a summons and the complaint herein and for almost three months following the court’s entry, on the plaintiff’s motion, of an order of default against them. Now they have appeared, but only for the purpose of moving to quash the service made upon them on October 2,1962, at their place of business in New York City. They contend that extra-territorial service was not authorized by statute, and that they…