98 Misc. 251 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1917
The defendant herein has appeared specially to move to set aside the service of the summons and complaint herein and to vacate a warrant of attachment granted herein. Originally he asked this relief on the ground that the papers on which the attachment was granted are fatally defective. The defendant contended in effect that the action is against a foreign corporation and the papers fail to show that the plaintiff is a resident of the city or state; that the cause of action arose here, that the defendant maintains an office in the city or state and that it does not appear from the original papers that'the court has jurisdiction of this action against the foreign corporation. The justice who heard this motion held that the plaintiff is a resident of the city of New York and, therefore, denied the motion. We need not now consider the correctness of the decision of the motion made on the ground that the original papers are defective for the defendant did not appeal from that order,
Article VI, section 14, of the Constitution, provides that the jurisdiction of the County Courts shall not be so extended as to authorize an action therein for the recovery of money only, in which the sum demanded exceeds $2,000 or in which any person not a resident of the county is a defendant. The Court of Appeals, in the case of Worthington v. London G. & A. Co., 164 N. Y. 81, and in the case of Routenberg v. Schweitzer, 165 id. 175, held that in spite of these provisions of the Constitution the legislature had power to confer jurisdiction upon the Municipal Court in actions against non-resident persons or corporations having
Order should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs.
Whitaker and Finch, JJ., concur.
Order affirmed, with costs.