Case Name: Mary Apfelberg, Respondent, v. Harry Lax, Defendant, and Annie Lax, Jacob Abowitz and Fannie Abowitz, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1929-10
Citations: 227 A.D. 750
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary Apfelberg, Respondent, v. Harry Lax, Defendant, and Annie Lax, Jacob Abowitz and Fannie Abowitz, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 227
Pages: 750–750

Head Matter:
Mary Apfelberg, Respondent, v. Harry Lax, Defendant, and Annie Lax, Jacob Abowitz and Fannie Abowitz, Appellants.

Opinion:
Order granting motion to strike out affirmative defenses in appellants' answers reversed upon the law, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs, to be apportioned among the appellants herein. The appellants may impeach the validity of the judgment of foreclosure and sale set forth in the amended complaint for want of jurisdiction. The question of the legality and sufficiency of the service by publication and mailing of the original process in the alleged judgment of foreclosure should be decided upon a trial of this action, and not on a motion to strike out the affirmative defenses in the answers. Rich, Young, Seeger and Scudder, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., concurs in result.