Logan v. . United Interests, Inc.

Cardozo, ,1.

A party wall forty-two feet in depth once separated the building No. 6 Greene street from the building No. 8 Greene street in the city of New York. Before November, 1883, the owners of No. 6 tore down the old building then standing on their lot and put up a new one, six stories in height and eighty-seven feet six inches in depth. They built the new wall in its extension toward the rear, a space of forty-five feet six inches, at their own expense and wholly on their own land. For the distance of this extension it was not a party wall. It was owned by those who built it.

In November,…