Form 1. Summons

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Civil Action, File Number ________

A. B., Plaintiff

   v.

}  Summons

C. D., Defendant

To the above-named Defendant:

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon ________, plaintiff's attorney, whose address is ____________, an answer to the complaint which is herewith served upon you, within 20 ¹ days after service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

________________________,       

Clerk of Court.  

[Seal of the U.S. District Court]

Dated ________________________

(This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure)

¹ If the United States or an officer or agency thereof is a defendant, the time to be inserted as to it is 60 days.

(As amended Dec. 29, 1948, eff. Oct. 20, 1949.)

Notes of Advisory Committee on Rules-1948 Amendment

The change in nomenclature conforms to the official designation of a district court and of a court of appeals in Title 28, U.S.C., §§43(a), 132(a); and the more appropriate reference to "United States Court House, Foley Square, City of New York" in Form 19 replaces the outmoded reference.