Lefcourt v. Sea Crest Hotel & Motor Inn, Inc.

Plaintiff, a New York resident, was injured in Massachusetts by a truck owned by the corporate defendant and operated by the individual defendant. The corporate defendant has no office or business in New York and no property in New York except as the obligations of its insurer have situs in New York. Whether the individual defendant was served does not appear. Service upon the corporate defendant was made by serving a corporate officer in Massachusetts, after an attachment served upon defendant’s liability insurer, American Employers Insurance Company, which maintains offices in New York and…