Judgment unanimously reversed, with $10 costs to defendant, and new trial ordered.
A sheriff is liable to the one he serves for negligently making out a false return of service (Green v. Ferguson, 14 Johns. 389 [1817]). In our view, a professional process server should be held to substantially the same liability imposed upon sheriffs. By signing an affidavit of personal service without reading...
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