Block v. Galitzka
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff; Jacob M. Block, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York in favor of the defendant, rendered on the 12th day of December, 1905, dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint upon the merits after a trial without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
Bo opinion was written by the trial justice, and the record does not disclose the ground of his decision.
The defendant entered into a contract with one or more contractors for the erection of one or more buildings, among whom was one Assip, who sublet certain of the steel work to one Hoff, the plaintiff’s assignor. While the work was in progress — about July 1, 1903 — before, as Hoff says, “ hardly any ” of. the work had been done or materials furnished, Hoff had a conversation with defendant, at the building upon which he was working, in which he told the defendant that he did not…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Littlefield v. LawrenceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
- Mannetti v. DoegeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Breen v. IsaacsAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1905