In re Hay Foundry & Iron Works
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, the Hay. Foundry and Iron Works, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of July, 1897, denying its motion to punish William J. Purdy for contempt of court.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The facts presented upon this application make it quite clear that the proceeding to procure the release of the property covered by the mechanic’s lien upon Amsterdam avenue, and' the giving of the bond to secure the release of such lien, was a scheme devised for *88the purpose of transferring the lien from the property to two irresponsible sureties, thus relieving the real owner of the property from the burden of paying the lien, and to that scheme this respondent was a party.
The respondent justified as a surety by claiming to be the owner of certain premises in Wooster street,…
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