Case ID: misc_28/html/0173-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Freedman, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles F. McKenna, Respondent, v. The Fireman’s Insurance Co., Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    June, 1899.)
    Foreign corporations — Municipal Court of the city of Mew York has no jurisdiction over.
    The Municipal Court of the City of New York has no jurisdiction over a foreign corporation.
    
      Appeal by the defendant from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in the Municipal Court, tenth district, borough of Manhattan.
    Wm. E. Murry, for appellant.
    Francis D. Hoyt, for respondent.
   Freedman, P. J.

The complaint in this action avers that the defendant is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of Hew Jersey.

The answer does not deny this allegation, consequently that averment stands admitted on the record. That being so, the Municipal Court had no jurisdiction. Rieser v. Parker & Co., 27 Misc. Rep. 205.

MacLean and Leventritt, JJ., concur.

Judgment reversed, with costs to appellant.