Feinberg v. Sutker

This was an action on a written contract, for an alleged balance due on rent of a storehouse. The defendant admitted the contract, but, denying liability, set up, as a special ground of defense, that, owing to the demolition of a building adjoining the west side of the rented property, the plaintiff, as owner of the rented property, undertook to shore up its west wall, and that the work was done so carelessly and negligently as to cause the west wall to sink from three to twelve inches along its entire length, and caused a crack about one inch wide to appear at the top of the said wall and to…