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63 How. Pr. 280

Acker v. Hauteman

New York Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1882

New York Supreme Court · decided 1882-04-15

An action was commenced against the defendants to recover a chattel. Subsequently an order of arrest was obtained, and the defendant Hauteman, was arrested. At the time of the arrest, the sheriff served copies of all the papers excepting the summons. For this omission the defendant Hauteman mo.ved to vacate the arrest, claiming that as to him the court had not acquired jurisdiction. The motion was denied and the defendant appealed.

Decided 1882-04-15

Per Curiam.

¶1The error of the sheriff in not delivering the summons with the other papers, was not fatal to the jurisdiction of the court. That jurisdiction is preserved by section 1693 of the Oode, when read in connection with section 416. The action was brought to recover possession of personal property, and the effect of the neglect of the sheriff to mate service of ths summons was, that the chattels were replevied before the service of the summons. The seizure, therefore, must be deemed as equivalent to the granting of a provisional remedy for the purpose, of giving jurisdiction to the court and enabling it to control the subsequent proceedings in the action and as equivalent to the commencement of the action for the purpose of determining whether or not the plaintiff had a right to maintain the action or the defendant is liable thereto.

¶2Section 416 provides that from the time of granting a provisional remedy the court acquires jurisdiction of the case and has control of all the subsequent proceedings.

¶3The summons in this case was afterwards served by the sheriff and the defect was thereby cured ; it had previously been served on the other defendant.

¶4We see no reason to doubt that the provisions of the sections quoted, uphold the ruling of the court below.

¶5The order should be affirmed.

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