Legal Opinion · Dissent
Johnson v. Deas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided August 10, 2006Published
1DissentMcGuire, J.
In my view, defendant failed to rebut plaintiffs prima facie showing of proper service. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.
The affidavit of plaintiff’s process server constituted prima facie evidence of proper service (see Matter of Nazarian v Monaco Imports, 255 AD2d 265 [1998]). To rebut this prima facie showing, defendant was required to submit a sworn, nonconclusory denial of service or swear to specific facts to rebut the statements in the process server’s affidavit (see NYCTL 1998-1 Trust & Bank of N.Y. v Rabinowitz, 7 AD3d 459 [2004]; Puco v DeFeo, 296 AD2d 571 [2002]; Simonds v…
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