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

SCHLESINGER v. SCHMIDT HOTEL CO.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department.
    June 28, 1915.)
    Courts <§=>190—BIunicipal Court—Decisions Review able.
    No appeal will lie from an order of the New York BIunicipal Court directing that the- service of summons be set aside and the complaint dismissed, and that judgment be entered for defendant, where no judgment had been entered on the order.
    [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Courts, Dec. Dig. <§=>190; Appeal and ' Error, Cent. Dig. § 103.]
    <@=oFor other cases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes.
    ■ Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Fourth District.
    Action by Benjamin Schlesinger against the Schmidt Hotel Company. From an order directing that the service of summons be set aside, the complaint dismissed, and judgment entered for the defendant, the plaintiff appeals. Appeal dismissed.
    Argued June term, 1915, before GUY, BIJUR, and PAGE, JJ.
    Nelson Ruttenberg, of New York City, for appellant.
    Ignace Irving Apfel, of New York City (Sydney S. Braunberg, of New York City, of counsel), for respondent.
   GUY, J.

The return in this case is fatally defective. On the return day the defendant filed an affidavit by its president, stating that he had been handed two papers, one a copy of the summons, and the other a copy of an alias summons. What motion, if any, was made thereon, does not appear; but there is an order directing that the service of the summons be set aside, and the complaint dismissed, and that judgment be entered for the defendant. This was on the ground that no jurisdiction was obtained over the defendant in failing to serve it with copies of all the alias that had been issued on affidavit filed. No judgment has yet, so far as the return shows, ever been entered upon this order. The clerk’s certificate recites as follows:

“The case here closed. The justice presiding * * * thereupon, to wit, on 8th day of March, 1915, indorsed on summons: ‘Dismissed; defective summons on affidavit filed.’ ”

This is not a judgment entered in any form. An appeal from an order dismissing a complaint will not lie. Kromback v. Penn. Steel Co., 84 N. Y. Supp. 297.

Appeal dismissed, with $10 costs. All concur.