Underwriters Trust Co. v. Scala

In this supplementary proceeding and numerous others decided simultaneously herewith, I am asked to either issue an order requiring a judgment debtor to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of a subpoena; or to issue to the Sheriff an attachment directing the seizure and production of the debtor for his default in responding to just such a previously issued order to show cause.

The only issue I raise on these applications, all of which are ex parte, is the sufficiency of the service of prior process. In each case service purports to have been made by “ substituted service ”…