Roth v. Hoster Realty Co.

This action was brought to foreclose a lien in favor of plaintiff, the lien having been filed to protect plaintiff’s claim for services as an architect.

The learned judge below came to the conclusion that section 77 of the General Business Law required the holding that the contract in suit was void as against public policy. As we read that section of the law, however, it appears to us to be directed solely against the assumption of the title architect or registered architect. Its provisions are strikingly different from those governing, for example, the practice of professions like medicine…