Tubridy v. . Wright
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Hew York, entered upon an order made March 12, 1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. Plaintiff’s right to file a mechanic’s lien did not terminate with the death of Samuel Wright.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Hew York, entered upon an order made March 12, 1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. Plaintiff’s right to file a mechanic’s lien did not terminate with the death of Samuel Wright. (Laws of 1885, chap. 342; Cornell v. Barney, 94 N. Y. 394; Laws of 1862, chap. 478; Laws of 1873, chap. 479; Watts v. Yuengling, 125 N. Y. 1; Anderson v. Dillaye, 47 id. 678.) The…
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action is brought to foreclose a mechanic’s lien. It appears that one Samuel O. Wright, in his lifetime, was the owner of seven houses .in the course of erection in the city of Hew York ; that he entered into a contract with the plaintiff to do the plumbing therein for the sum of $11,000; that the plaintiff entered upon the performance of his contract, and had nearly completed the same when the work was postponed, by the mutual consent of the parties, until further direction by Wright. Shortly thereafter Wright died, leaving a will whereby he devised his property to the defendants in…
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