206 A.D. 502 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1923
The defendant sought to set aside the service of papers upon the ground that he was enticed into the jurisdiction of this court by fraud and deceit. In the moving affidavit it is averred that defendant was called to the telephone at his place of business, a barber shop at Hackensack, N. J., and was asked about selling it; that the party speaking said he had a purchaser for a barber shop, and suggested that he would telephone again and would arrange to meet defendant in New York; that defendant learned of a barber shop in Hackensack for sale; that subsequently he received another telephone message purporting to be from the same man who had previously telephoned him, who, on this occasion, suggested that defendant might make some money on the sale and that he
Nothing to contradict these allegations was produced excepting an affidavit of one of plaintiff’s attorneys denying them upon information and belief, and stating that he was unable to secure an affidavit from the process server.
Where, as here, it appears that a defendant has been enticed into the jurisdiction by fraud and deceit, the service of papers thereby effectuated will be vacated. (Olean R. Co. v. Fairmount Co., 55 App. Div. 292; Wyckoff v. Packard, 20 Abb. N. C. 420; Dunham, v. Cressy, 4 N. Y. Supp. 13; Blandin v. Ostrander, 239 Fed. Rep. 700.)
The order should be reversed and the motion granted.
Clarke, P. J., Dowling, Finch and McAvoy, JJ., concur.
Order reversed and motion granted.