Grossman v. Pearlman
| Decision Date | 02 December 1965 |
| Docket Number | Docket 30054.,No. 163,163 |
| Citation | 353 F.2d 284 |
| Parties | Irma GROSSMAN and David Grossman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bernard PEARLMAN, Alan Krumholz and Morris F. Pearlman, Defendants-Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
Irma Grossman and David Grossman, pro se.
Arthur Stoll, New York City, for defendant-appellee Morris F. Pearlman.
Before MEDINA, WATERMAN and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.
There are before us two appeals that have been consolidated for the purpose of argument. On both appeals we have heard oral argument by each of the plaintiffs-appellants appearing pro se. The first appeal is from an order of Judge Bonsal quashing service of process made on defendant-appellee Morris F. Pearlman. The second appeal is from an order of Judge Wyatt denying a motion, purportedly made pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), to transfer an action pending in the New Jersey Superior Court to the District Court for the Southern District of New York and to make it "part of this suit after the change of venue." We affirm both orders, but without costs.
The sequence of events culminating in these two appeals appears to have started when a suit to recover damages for personal injuries was commenced in a New Jersey State Court. Feeling themselves aggrieved by the acts and statements of their attorneys, or those purporting to be such, plaintiffs-appellants brought an action in the Superior Court of New Jersey bearing the same title as the action in which these appeals are taken, namely "Irma Grossman and David Grossman, Plaintiffs vs. Bernard Pearlman, Alan Krumholz and Morris F. Pearlman, Defendants." It is stated in one of plaintiffs-appellants' affidavits that the New Jersey action against Morris F. Pearlman was dismissed for some fault in pleading. Thereafter, and on June 3, 1965, plaintiffs-appellants filed a new complaint in the District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging substantially the same claims for relief and against the same parties as were sued in the action in the New Jersey Superior Court, with an additional "count" against Morris F. Pearlman.
The motion to quash service on Morris F. Pearlman in Jersey City on June 8, 1965 was properly granted by Judge Bonsal. Jurisdiction of subject matter is based upon diversity of citizenship. There is no dispute of the fact that Morris F. Pearlman is domiciled in the State of New Jersey and is a citizen, inhabitant and resident of that State. The provisions of Rule 4(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure applicable to service of summons on a person not an inhabitant or not found within the state in which the district court is held state:
"Whenever a statute or rule of court of the state in which the district court is held provides (1) for service of a summons, or of a notice, or of an order in lieu of summons upon a party not an inhabitant of or found within the state, or (2) for service upon or notice to him to appear and respond or defend in an action by reason of the attachment or garnishment or similar seizure of his property located within the state, service may in either case be made under the circumstances and in the manner prescribed in the statute or rule."
The New York Civil Practice Law and Rules are explicit. Section 313 provides that service without the state may be made upon a person domiciled within the state or "subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the state under section 301 or 302." Section 301 merely precludes an interpretation that there shall be a limitation upon the acquisition of jurisdiction over persons, property or status as previously permitted. Thus the controlling provision is to be found in Section 302, authorizing jurisdiction over the person of a non-domiciliary "as to a cause of action arising from any of the acts enumerated in this section," to wit:
The charges made in the complaint are plainly stated to have reference to conduct and statements of defendants alleged to have been done or made within the State of New Jersey. There is not the remotest suggestion or hint in the complaint that any of the causes of action alleged arose out of the...
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