SKYLINE v. COPPOTELLI, INC.


117 A.D.2d 135 (1986)

Skyline Agency, Inc., Appellant, v. Ambrose Coppotelli, Inc., et al., Defendants, and Frank Coppotelli, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

May 12, 1986


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Maniatis (David Cohen on the brief), for appellant.

Lemole McCarthy Magnotti & Peter J. Napolitano (Paul A. Lemole of counsel; Rodney Stilwell and Christopher P. Nalley on the brief), for respondent.

GIBBONS, J. P., WEINSTEIN and NIEHOFF, JJ., concur.


BROWN, J.

The question to be decided on this appeal is whether an attorney's unauthorized appearance conferred personal jurisdiction over the individual for whom the attorney purported to appear when that individual neither had been served with process nor had become aware of the fact that an action had been brought against him until subsequent to judgment. We conclude that, under such circumstances, personal...

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