Beck v. Catholic University of America
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 20, 1901,-affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The action was to foreclose a mechanic’s lien upon real property owned by the appellant situated on ¡Riverside drive in the city of Bew York.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 20, 1901,-affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The action was to foreclose a mechanic’s lien upon real property owned by the appellant situated on ¡Riverside drive in the city of Bew York. It consisted of six lots which the appellant, by an executory contract, sold to the defendant Dexter for one hundred thousand dollars. Dexter employed the plaintiff to erect a building for a restaurant thereon, and out of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Ouriam.
The judgment appealed from should be reversed. The mechanics’ liens involved in this action were filed against property now owned by the Catholic University of America. The appellant insists that the labor and materials furnished, for which liens were filed, were not furnished either with its consent or at its recpiest, although its property has been held liable therefor. It is not even pretended that the university requested the performance of the labor or the furnishing of the materials employed in the erection of the building upon the appellant’s land. 'Nor do we think there was…
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