Van Bel Co. v. Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 5

This mechanic’s lien action has been twice tried before the county judge of Suffolk county without decision, and the *493question is now whether it must be tried again. At the conclusion of the first trial, the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland was brought in as party defendant on motion of the defendant board of education, and the entire case reopened. At the conclusion of the second trial, which consumed about two weeks, and in which voluminous testimony was taken and numerous exhibits admitted, proposed findings and decision were submitted, but before they were acted on, the county…