Edmond Weil, Inc. v. Popper

The first two sentences of section 51 of the City Court Act expressly provide that in certain actions in that court, service of the summons may be made without the State where an order to such effect has been procured. The third sentence of the section states that the provisions of law relating to the service of a summons on a defendant without the State in an action brought *685in the Supreme Court shall apply to such service in the City Court. But section 235 of the Civil Practice Act permits service without the State without an order in certain Supreme Court actions. If the third sentence of…