Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-29
CLEVER PROCESS SERVERS.
The ingenious Tricks They Invent 10
Track Down Their Elusive Quarry.

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Several hundred suhpocnas, sum
monses and Other forms of ieSal pro-
cess are served IN New York e3ch
week. An average fee of 81 is paid to
the process server for each service. In
addition to the actual work Of finding
the person to be served, identifying
him or her. and executing tie service,
tie process server is obliged to take
cath that the service WaS properly
executed who fails to serve tour or five
persons a day is usually dismissed
from the employment of the attorney
in whose office he works.
The process server frequently finds
himself in foreign settlements where
The persons to be served do not under
stand English. and whore it is difficult
to make ideHtificaticns. Each week
more than thirty services arc SGT aside
by the courts because of the careless
ness of the courts because of the care
lessHess of the process server. Though
this carries with it thu implication
that the process server las sworn
falsely, there has been no recent case
of process server being prosecuted
for perjury
Process servers in n large city. one
of them explained yesterday. face an
entirely different problem from those
in a small community. where every
one Is known and has fixed place a
residence. Many of the persons sued
in New York are persons who have
eyaded grocer's bills and other obliga-
tions by removing from the neighhor-
hood. In some of ths cases, they have
changed their names as w6n; Where
as, everyone in Small eoqhlunity
knows his next door ptighbor the inan
in the city does not know who occupies
the next fiat or tenement
AS the case frequently involve ltss
than 500 and the process servers fee
is small, care in serving tho subpccnaS
is the exception rather than the rule.
One process server said that his prac-
tce was to visit the last known adj
dress of the defendant, ring the bell,
call loudly for him or her, and then
throw the process in tn arnaWaN ar
hall. He then would return to the
LAWYERS office. make affidavit that hc
had served the party, and receive his
fee. Although this service would be
defective and the defendant never
hear of the action, Judgment would be
entered. and the first that the enc sup
posed to be served would know Of it.
would be an attachment against his
furniture served by Il city marshal
I'VE haven't got the time to identify
everybody positively said a process
server yesterday. we have to take
our chances. one Of our resources is
tho telephone trick. We find ont the
place of business Of the man to be
served. Then we go into adjoining
premises and get him on the telephone.
While he is answering we make
quick entry and serve the man who
has answered to that name and VIII"
is still holding the telephone.
Il had an amusing experience on
Grand street last week. / was ont to
serve a man whom | shall call sosro
MaRnoWitZ. He was one of the part
ners IN furniture store. I went into
a cigar store next door and called up
the furniture establishment
Hello Is Mr.. MagnoWit2 il %
I'm see. Who wants to talk with
hin?"
"'rell him Miss Leibowitz wants to
talk with him
Pretty soon mans voice answered.
I asked:
lis this Mr. Magnowitz? and got
an affirmative answer, with Il What