Legal Opinion
Continental Insurance v. Consumer Towing & Collision, Inc.
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided March 5, 2001PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mary Ann Brigantti-Hughes, J.
Plaintiff, an insurance company, seeks to recover damages *173from defendant, a repairer of automobiles, for the wrongful withholding of a vehicle. Defendant counterclaims for foreclosure of a garage lien obtained pursuant to repairs performed on the automobile. Thus, the dispositive issue arising in this dispute is the validity of the garage lien, which depends on whether the exclusion of the benefits of the “Garage Keeper’s” Lien Law from unregistered repair shops should be extended to a registered repair car shop that performed car repairs…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- McGreen v. On Point Collision, Inc.Civil Court of the City of New York · 2002