Case Name: ECKERSON v. ELLIS
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1900-03-09
Citations: 63 N.Y.S. 150
Docket Number: 
Parties: ECKERSON v. ELLIS.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 63
Pages: 150–150

Head Matter:
ECKERSON v. ELLIS.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
March 9, 1900.)
Landlord and Tenant — Summary Proceedings — Process—Service.
Code Civ. Proc. § 2240, providing that the precept for removing a tenant must be served at his dwelling house, and if service cannot be made with reasonable diligence there, or on the tenant personally, then service must be made by affixing a copy on a conspicuous part of the demised premises, does not authorize substituted service at the demised premises, where the tenant’s residence is known to the person making the service.
Appeal from municipal court, borough of Manhattan, Sixth district. Action by John O. E. Eckerson against John C. Ellis. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Eeversed.
Argued before TRUAX, P. J., and DUGRO and SCOTT, JJ.
John L. Linehan, for appellant.
Deyo, Duer & Bauerdorf, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Mr. Ellis, the tenant, swears that Mr. Fowler, who made the substituted service of the precept herein, knew his (said Ellis') residence, in the city of New York, and that he had frequently served the said Ellis with precepts relating to the premises mentioned in the precept herein at said residence. This allegation is not denied. Section 2240 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that a service of the kind made in this proceeding must be made at the dwelling house of the tenant, and that if it cannot be made with reasonable diligence at the dwelling house of the tenant, or on the tenant personally, then it must be made by affixing a copy of the precept upon a conspicuous part of the property. The service not having been made in compliance with this section, the justice did not acquire jurisdiction, and the judgment and final order are reversed, with costs.