-Validity of CPLR 308(4) substituted (affix-and-mail) service.
-Process server’s failure to ascertain and attempt service at defendants’ place of business.
-Defendants, husband and wife, unrepresented at Traverse Hearing.
-Process server’s Field Sheet silent as to follow-up mailing.
-Unrepresented defendant wife cross-examines process server regarding no attempt to ascertain defendants’ place of employment prior to resorting to affix-and-mail service.
-Unrepresented defendant wife cross-examines process server re absence of postal date stamp from documents submitted as proof of follow-up mailing.
-Both defendants elected not to testify or call any witnesses.
-Process server (direct examination; cross-examination)
-Both defendants did not testify or call any witnesses