179 A.D. 732 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1917
The summons and complaint herein were served personally upon John B. Davock, vice-president of the defendant company on July 26, 1917. The defendant is a foreign corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Ohio and having its principal place of business at Cleveland in that State, and is engaged in the sale of motor trucks. It was not licensed to do business in the State of New York and never has maintained any office for the transaction of business therein. For five months it had a salesman at Buffalo, who was paid no salary but a commission on sales consummated by him, and he procured only one order, which was for a motor truck, shipped from Painesville, O., to Buffalo, N. Y. This employment was terminated June 1, 1917. In February, 1917, plaintiff was employed by defendant to sell motor trucks on commission, all orders to be referred to defendant’s office at Cleveland, O., for acceptance and the trucks to be shipped in interstate commerce directly to the purchasers. This employment was terminated June 29, 1917. Neither of these selling agents was authorized to maintain an office for defendant in the State of New York, nor to employ any representatives, agents or servants for the defendant therein. It thus appears that for nearly a month before the service of the summons and complaint herein the defendant had no representative, agent, servant or employee in the State of New York, and during that period it had neither sold or attempted to sell any goods in this State, nor solicited any orders for the same. None of the officers or directors of defendant resides or has a place of business in the State of New York. The only property belonging to defendant in this State upon which levy was made by the sheriff under the warrant of attachment herein consists of certain motor trucks and chassis shipped by defendant from Ohio to New
The order appealed from will, therefore, be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted, with ten dollars costs.
Clarke, P. J., Scott, Smith and Page, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and. disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.