Case Name: Jackson, ex dem. Pickart, against Eacker
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1800-04
Citations: 1 Johns. Cas. 331
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Jackson, ex dem. Pickart, against Eacker.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 398–398

Head Matter:
*Jackson, ex dem. Pickart, against Eacker.
Service of a notice of "a motion, .by leaving it at the lodgings of an attorney is not sufficient. It must be served personally, or be left in his office, or place of business.
Backer, for the defendant,
moved to strike out three of the demises contained in the declaration in this cause, on the ground of their being laid in the names of persons now deceased, and.of a date so ancient as to overreach the time when the title set up by the defendant accrued.
The notice of the motion was served by leaving the same at a house where the plaintiff’s attorney lodged.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The service was insufficient. To dispense with personal service on the attorney, the notice ought to have been left in his office, the place of his business, and not at his lodgings.
Rule refused.
" Notices and papers may be served on an attorney, during his absence from his office, by leaving the same with his clerk in his office, or with a person having charge thereof; or, where no person is to be found in the office, by leaving the same between the hours of six in the morning and nine in the evening, in some suitable and conspicuous place in such office ; or, if the office be not open so as to admit of service therein, then by leaving the same at the attorney's residence, with some person of suitable age and discretion." Gra. Prac. 2d edit. 711. And see 711, 712, as to the'service of papers upon an attorney.