Norton v. Berlin Iron Bridge Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This is an application on behalf of the defendant, a foreign corporation, to set aside the service of a summons against it in an action of tort, upon the ground that the person on whom such service was made- by the sheriff of Hudson county was not an officer, director, agent, clerk or engineer of the corporation, as required by section 88 of the act concerning corporations. Rev., p. 193.

The evidence, taken under a rule to show cause, discloses,, that the defendant, having made a contract to put an iron roof on a building in Hudson county,…