Case Name: Caroline Correll, Pl'ff, v. Adele Granget, Def't
Court: New York Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-04
Citations: 67 N.Y. St. Rep. 892
Docket Number: 
Parties: Caroline Correll, Pl’ff, v. Adele Granget, Def't.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 67
Pages: 892–892

Head Matter:
Caroline Correll, Pl’ff, v. Adele Granget, Def't.
(New York Superior Court, Special Term,
Filed April, 1895.)
Service and proof — Summons.
- It is not good service of a summons to deposit and leave it on a chair in the room where the defendant then was, without offering to deliver it into her hands, or even asking for her by name or stating the nature of the paper.
Motion to set aside the service of a summons and complaint as irregular.
A. I. Sire, for the motion ; E. P. Schell, opposed.

Opinion:
Gildersleeve, J.
It seems to me that the preponderance of evidence shows that the service of the summons and complaint was irregular. Defendant presents the affidavit of a disinterested! eyewitness, in addition to her own, stating that a stranger came into the room in which defendant happened to be at the time, and, without asking for defendant by name, nor stating the nature of the papers, deposited them in a chair, and directly afterwards departed, not a good service. The papers should have been handed to defendant, and, if she refused to take them, the server should have informed defendant of the nature of the papers, and of his purpose to make service of them, and then he should have laid them down at any appropriate place in- the presence of the defendant. See Davison v. Baker, 24 Ho.w. Pr. 39. It therefore seems to me that the motion to set aside the service of the summons and complaint must be granted, but without costs. Motion granted, without costs.