Coggeshall Painting & Restoration Co. v. Zetlin

—Order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, entered May 19, 1999, which affirmed a judgment of the Civil Court, New York County (Leona Freedman, J.), entered January 16, 1997, after a nonjury trial, in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $42,000 with costs and disbursements, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We agree with the majority of the Appellate Term that the *365limited carpentry work undertaken by plaintiff was decorative in nature and incidental to the extensive preparation, painting and refinishing work performed by plaintiff on defendant’s duplex apartment.…