Case Name: Kleecke against Styles
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1808-05
Citations: 3 Johns. 250
Docket Number: 
Parties: Kleecke against Styles.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 250–251

Head Matter:
Kleecke against Styles.
NEW-YORK,
May, 1808.
Where the copy of the declaration and notice to plead are served upon the defendant personally, and he after-wards employs an attorney, who gives notice of'liis retainer, the declaration and rule to plead need not be served de novo on the attorney ; but he must plead in 20 days after the service qf the:ftrst notice.
FISK, for the defendant,
moved to set aside the default and all subsequent proceedings in this cause for irregularity. He read an affidavit stating, that on the 7th March last, the defendant’s attorney gave due notice of his being retained as attorney for the defendant, and also a notice that special bail had been put in, and that the bail-piece was filed in the clerk’s office at Albany, on the 4th March.
D. B. Ogden, contra,
read an affidavit, that a copy of the declaration, with notice of a rule to plead, was served on the defendant personally, on the 4th day of February,, before any notice of a retainer by the defendant’s attorney, ' and that the default was regularly entered, after the expiration of the 20 days.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Where a copy of the declaration and notice of the rule to plead, have been served on the defendant personally, and the plaintiff's attorney, afterwards, receives notice of a retainer from an attorney for the defendant, he need not serve a copy of the declaration, or notice of the rule to plead, de novo, on the defendant's at torney ; but the defendant is bound to plead in 20 days 1802, in the case of Hallett v. Moore, and which was a case of bail. It is otherwise, where the service of the declaration and notice is by putting them up in the clerk's office. (See the 5th rule of April term, 1796.) from the first notice. It was so decided in July term,
Rule refused,