Case Name: Pura Rosario, as Administratrix of the Estate of Enrique Rosario, Deceased, Respondent, v. Public Service Co-ordinated Transport, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1945-12-14
Citations: 270 A.D. 169
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pura Rosario, as Administratrix of the Estate of Enrique Rosario, Deceased, Respondent, v. Public Service Co-ordinated Transport, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 270
Pages: 169–171

Head Matter:
Pura Rosario, as Administratrix of the Estate of Enrique Rosario, Deceased, Respondent, v. Public Service Co-ordinated Transport, Appellant.
First Department,
December 14, 1945.
Thomas G. Prioleau for appellant appearing specially.
Hyman A, Hochman of counsel (Albert W. Richman, attorney), for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The motion to vacate service of summons should have been granted.
The proof established that defendant, a foreign corporation, was not doing business in this State at the time of service. At most, it owned the stock of a subsidiary corporation which carried on business here.
Such stock ownership, without further activity, did not bring the parent company within the State in the sense of transacting its own business here (People's Tobacco Co. v. Am. Tobacco Co., 246 U. S. 79; Cannon Mfg. Co. v. Cudahy Co., 267 U. S. 333; Compania Mexicana v. Compania Metropolitana, 250 N. Y. 203; Yeckes-Eichenbaum, Inc., v. McCarthy, 290 N. Y. 437).
This case is unlike those relied on by plaintiff, where the foreign corporation operated within the State but claimed that it did so as agent of a domestic corporation (Atlantic Greyhound Lines v. Metz, 70 F. 2d 166), or where the subsidiary was a mere name or device to give the appearance of transacting business which in fact was being carried on by the parent company. (See Mas v. Orange-Crush Co., 99 F. 2d 675.)
The order should be reversed, with $20 costs and disbursements, and the motion to confirm the report of the referee and "to vacate the service granted.
Mabtin, P. J., Townley, Dore, Coen and Gallaban, JJ., concur.
Order unanimously reversed, with $20 costs and disbursements to the appellant, and the motion to confirm the report of the referee and to vacate the service granted.