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FASHION PAGE v. ZURICH INS.

50 N.Y.2d 265 (1980)

Fashion Page, Ltd., Respondent, v. Zurich Insurance Company et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence F. Landgraff and Ira J. Greenhill for appellants.

James Sawyer for respondent.

J. Bruce Byrne for Paragon Process Service Co., Inc., and another, defendants.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, JONES, FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur with Judge WACHTLER; Judge GABRIELLI concurs in a separate opinion.

WACHTLER, J.

The question in this case is whether a corporation was properly served pursuant to CPLR 311 (subd 1) when the process server delivered the summons to the vice-president's secretary, who had been identified by the defendant's receptionist and the secretary herself as a person authorized to accept service for the corporation. The Supreme Court held that under the circumstances the service was valid...

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