Nason Manufacturing Co. v. Adams

Section 15 of the Lien Law reads: “ No assignment of a contract for the performance of labor or the furnishing of materials for the improvement of real property or of the money or any part thereof due or to become due therefor, nor an order drawn by a contractor or sub-contractor upon the owner of such real property for the payment -of *591such money shall be valid, until the contract or a statement containing the substance thereof and such assignment or a copy of each or a'copy of such order, be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein the real property improved or to be…