Roberts v. Thompson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Harvey E. Roberts, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Steuben Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Steuben on the 5th day of December, 1911, setting aside the service of a summons herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, J.:
Defendant is a resident of the State of Pennsylvania, being a wholesale dealer in lumber at the city of Pittsburg. He was served with the summons in this action at the city of Coming while attending the trial of an action at the Trial Term of this court in that city, in which he was plaintiff and the plaintiff here was defendant, and within an hour after the trial of that action had been completed and before he had any opportunity to leave this State for his home. He was a necessary and material witness upon that trial.
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