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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lena Langman, by her Guardian ad litem, Respondent, v. L. A. Wilmot Milbury, Doing Business as the Milbury Atlantic Supply Co., Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    May, 1900.)
    Municipal court o£ the city of Mew York — Jurisdiction not afforded hy defendant’s having a place of business in the city.
    The Municipal Court of the city of New York has no jurisdiction of a defendant unless the record shows that he is a resident, and his having a place of business in the city is not enough.
    Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York, borough of Manhattan, rendered in favor of the plaintiff upon a trial had before the court, without a jury.
    Henry L. Maxson, for appellant.
    Ho appearance for respondent.
   ■Per Curiam.

The fact that the defendant had, at the time of the trial, a place of business in the city of Hew York, does not satisfy the jurisdictional requirement. Proof of actual residence will alone suffice (Routenberg v. Schweitzer, 29 Misc. Rep. 653; affd., 50 App. Div. 218; and, since this proof is not furnished by the record, the judgment must be reversed and a new trial ordered. As the question was raised upon the trial, the reversal will be with costs, to abide the event.

Present: Beekman, P. J., Giegerich and O’Gorman, JJ.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide event.