Higgins v. Desert Braemar, Inc.

The plaintiff, appellant herein, brought these consolidated actions to recover compensation for services rendered as a general contractor in connection with the construction of a 100-unit cooperative apartment project owned by the defendant, the respondent herein; one was upon a common count to recover the reasonable value of those services; and the other was to foreclose a general contractor’s lien for the same services.

The parties involved in this transaction were the plaintiff, a licensed general contractor; the defendant Desert Braemar, Inc., herein referred to as the Desert Company,…