Hoag v. . Lamont

The judgment against the defendants, other than Walbridge, cannot be sustained without substantially overruling Landers v.Staten Island R.R. Co. (53 N.Y., 450). The cause of action did not arise within the city of Brooklyn or the county of Kings, and there was no claim upon the trial that either of the defendants, except Walbridge, had at any time resided or that they had been served with process within that city or county. The jurisdiction of the court was made to rest, and was sustained by the City Court, upon the fact that Walbridge, one of the defendants at the time of the commencement of…