Davidson v. Fox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry E. Fox, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of April, 1901, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion of court below.
Present ■—■ Van Brunt, P. J., Patterson, Ingraham, Hatch and Laughlin, JJ.
The following is the opinion of Freedman, J., delivered at Special Term:
Freedman, J.:
The cause of action in this case has been reduced by statement of counsel made upon the trial to an action to cancel of record a contract entered into between the parties herein, the plaintiff as owner and the defendant as contractor, for the alteration of a building, and which contract the defendant caused to ‘ be recorded in the office of the register of the city and county of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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