Patrician Plastic Corp. v. Bernadel Realty Corp.

The issue in this property damage action is whether a supplemental summons, in addition to an amended complaint, must be served by a newly added plaintiff on a defendant originally sued in the action. The purpose of adding the new plaintiff was simply to correct the misallocation, among affiliated corporations of similar name, of the ownership of the property in suit. The issue is made simpler because the defendant in question (Automatic Fire Alarm Company) is a domestic corporation, but complicated on the other hand by the court’s direction at the time of authorizing joinder that a…