McDonald v. Mayor

The defendant Collins having a contract with the defendant The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty *132of the City of New York for the regulating and grading of Jerome avenue, in the said city, entered into an agreement with the plaintiff whereby the latter was to furnish certain material to be used upon this work. For the sum claimed to be due him under his contract with Collins, the plaintiff, on March 6, 1897, filed a mechanic’s lien under the provisions of the New York City Consolidation Act then in force (Laws of 1882, chap. 410, §§ 1824-1838), and this suit was brought to foreclose the lien so…