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Service by “Nailing” On the Day Before the Last Possible Day and “Mailing” on the Last Possible Day Was Timely

The Court of Appeals, affirming the 4th Department, determined that service by “nailing and mailing” the petition to invalidate a designating petition was timely. The petition was “nailed” on the day before the last possible day for service and was “mailed” on the last possible day for service:

We agree with the courts below that this proceeding was properly commenced in a timely manner. Here, there is no dispute that petitioner complied with the terms of the order to show cause by nailing the papers to the door of [respondent’s] residence on July 22, 2015 and mailing the papers to that residence by express mail on July 23. [Respondent] maintains that mailing on the last day of the statutory period was jurisdictionally defective since delivery inevitably would occur outside of the statutory period. However, where the instrument of notice has been delivered by another prescribed method within the statutory period, we have rejected such contentions concerning mailing … . Matter of Angletti v Morreale, 2015 NY Slip Op 06647, CtApp 8-26-15

 

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