Inter Metal Fabricators, Inc. v. HRH Construction LLC

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered December 10, 2010, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendants HRH Construction LLC’s and Vigilant Insurance Company’s motions for summary judgment dismissing the second and third causes of action for foreclosure of mechanic’s liens and HRH’s motion for summary judgment as to liability on its counterclaim for willful exaggeration of the liens, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendants demonstrated conclusively that the amount of the lien was willfully exaggerated (see Lien Law § 39;…