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75 A.D. 439

Weil v. Gallun

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1902-07-01

Appeal by the defendants, August E. Gallun and others, from an •order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of July, 1902, denying the defendants’ motion to set .aside levies under warrants of attachment.

Decided 1902-07-01

Van Brunt, P. J.:

¶1Attachments having been issued in this action, they were served upon various persons claimed to have been indebted to the defend*440ants in the attachment, namely, upon one Lowenstein; one Edwards,, one Hollander, and one ¡Nettleton. It is sought to set aside the service upon Lowenstein, Edwards and Hollander upon the ground that there was no indebtedness existing from them to the defendants in the attachment.

¶2We do not see how the question of indebtedness by the moving-parties to the defendants in the attachment can be determined upon this motion. If they are not indebted, the attachment does them no harm ; and, if they are indebted, then the plaintiffs are entitled to the benefit of the levy.

¶3It is insisted that, so far as Hollander'is concerned, he is the president of a foreign corporation which was indebted to the defendants . and that such indebtedness cannot be reached by the attachment. So far as the papers disclose, the attachment does not seem to liavebeen served upon him as president of the corporation. If it had been, it might be that the levy could be set aside precisely the same as the service of the summons upon foreign corporations would be set aside upon the proper motion where the service is made upon a person not designated by the Code of Civil Procedure. ' In the case at bar the service seems to have been upon Hollander personally,, and, as already stated, the question whether he is indebted to the defendants or not cannot be determined upon such a motion as-this.

¶4In respect to the levy upon N ettleton another question arises. It appears that no certified copy of the attachment was served upon him as required by the Code of Civil Procedure '(§ 649), b.ut that a paper purporting to be a copy of the attachment was served. This was clearly irregular and the levy was, therefore, ineffectual. This was not an irregularity coming within rule 37 of the General Rules of Practice which requires that, in the notice of motion to-set aside for irregularity, such irregularity shall be specified. It was a question of jurisdiction which was not. acquired by the improper service of the paper. The irregularities mentioned in rule 37 seem to relate to irregularities of practice in the conduct of litigations.

¶5We think, therefore, that the order should be affirmed so far as to deny the motion to set aside the levies as to Lowenstein, Edwards and Hollander, and that the order should be reversed as to Nettle-*441ton and the motion to vacate the levy granted, without costs to either party.

¶6O’Brien, McLaughlin and Laughlin, Jj., concurred.

¶7Order affirmed so far as to deny motion to set aside levies as to Lowenstein, Edwards and Hollander, and reversed as to Nettle-ton, and motion to vacate levy granted, without costs to either party.

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