Wechsler v. Elbeco Realty Corp.

This is an application for an injunction pendente lite. The plaintiff and defendant are the owners of adjoining properties situated on West Thirty-fifth street, near Eighth avenue, in the borough of Manhattan. On their mutual dividing line, and located partly on the premises of each, stands a party wall from eight to twelve inches in thickness which is now the west wall of the building on the plaintiff’s lot. The history of its origin is not disclosed. The building formerly on the defendant’s lot, of which this party wall was the east wall, was torn down a number of years ago and the…