Case Name: SINKS, Respondent, v. INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE LEAGUE, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1914-04-29
Citations: 147 N.Y.S. 1141
Docket Number: 
Parties: SINKS, Respondent, v. INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE LEAGUE, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 147
Pages: 1141–1141

Head Matter:
SINKS, Respondent, v. INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE LEAGUE, Appellant.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
April 29, 1914.)
Action by F. N. Sinks against the International! Automobile League.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Judgment and order reversed, with costs, the directed verdict set aside, and defendant's motion for dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint granted, with costs. Held, that the defendant, being, as to the state of Ohio, a foreign corporation, service of process on Rumstay did not give the court of that state, in which the judgment sued upon in this action was recovered, jurisdiction of the defendant; it having been proved in this action that he was not a managing agent of defendant, within the meaning of that te.rm as used in the statutes of that state, prescribing the method of service of process on foreign corporations, and service of such process upon, him was not a service upon defendant.