Case ID: ny-st-rep_69/html/0716-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Silas F. Overton, Resp’t, v. Emily F. Barclay et al., Def’ts. William H. Hall, App’lt.
    
      (Supreme Court, General Term, First Department,
    
    
      Filed July 16, 1895.)
    
    Service cw process—Substituted.
    _ An order for the substituted service of a summons upon an infant, which directs such service to be made by leaving a copy at the infant’s residence with a person of proper age, or, if such a person cannot be found, by affixing the same to the outer or other door of such residence, and by depositing another copy thereof, addressed to such infant, in the post office, only requires a copy to be deposited in the post office in case service cannot he made by leaving a copy at the infant’s residence with a person of proper age.
    Appeal from an order, denying a motion, made by the purchaser on a foreclosure sale, to be relieved from his purchase.
    The order for substituted service on the infant defendant is as follows:
    Ordered, that service of said summons upon said defendant, Emily E. Barclay, be made by leaving a copy thereof and of this order at the residence of said defendant, No. 74 WestlSáth street, in the city of New York, with a person of proper age, if, upon reasonable application, admittance can be obtained and such a person found who will receive it, or, if admittance cannot be so obtained or such a person found, by affixing the same to the outer or other door of said defendant’s residence, and by depositing another copy thereof, properly inclosed in a post-paid wrapper addressed to her at her said place of residence, in the post office oí the saidcity and county of New York.
    
      Robert K Deyo, for app’lt; H. H. SnedeTcer, for resp’t.
   Per Curiam.

The purchaser’s objection to taking title is founded on the claim that service of the order appointing a guardian ad litem for the defendant, an infant over fourteen years of age, unless within twenty days she should procure one to be appointed, was not made. The order was not personally served upon her, because she could not be found, and subsequently the plaintiff caused a petition to be presented to the court, in which it was stated, among other things, that the infant secreted herself to avoid service. Thereupon an order for substituted service was made, ami the purchaser argues that the provisions of the order in respect to-manner of service were not complied with ; that it required two. things to be done: “First, the order appointing the guardian and the order for substituted service should both be left at the residence of the infant with some person of proper age ; second, that, copies of both orders be deposited in the post' office.” It is true that the orders were not deposited iii the post office, and if the purchaser is right in his claim that the order required it to be done his position would be well taken. But we do not so read it. The provision for service of the order úpon a person of proper age at the residence of the infant was by the order made sufficient. Only in the event of the failure to make such service was the alternative of affixing the orders to the outer door and mailing them provided for. The papers were served at the residence of the infant upon her mother, and thus the order was complied with.

The order should be affirmed, with $10 costs and printing disbursements.