George W. Woods, Inc. v. Althauser

Finch, J.:

The defendant, appellant, Selma Althauser, is the owner of premises No. 408 East Fifty-fourth street, New York city. This action is brought, to foreclose a mechanic's hen against said premises for the agreed price of shoring up a wall, made necessary by an excavation upon the adjoining land of the defendant Bloomingdale Bros., Inc. As a counterclaim the defendant, appellant, alleges that in order to induce her to enter into a contract with the plaintiff to shore up the wall of her premises and thus cast upon her the expense thereof, the plaintiff and the two other defendants…