2 Wend. 626
Decided August 15, 1829
New York Supreme Court · decided 1829-08-15
The notice of taxation was served by putting the same under the door of the office of the agent of the defendant’s attorney, between the hours of 10 and 12 A. M. of the day of service, the door being shut and fastened.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1884
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Decided 1829-08-15
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¶1The service was irregular. If the notice could not be personally served on the agent or on his clerk in his office, it should have been delivered to some one of his family. The motion is granted.
¶2 In another case, decided this term, a notice served by leaving the same in the office of agent, no one being therein, was pronounced an irregular service.