Paul v. Catani

The case was tried by the court without a jury. The defendants are the owners of premises situate and known as 2182 East 4th Street, Brooklyn, which premises adjoin and are to the south of the premises owned by the plaintiffs. For many years there was a fence dividing the premises, first a wooden picket fence which is denied by the *73defendants, and thereafter, admittedly, a wire or cyclone fence. The plaintiffs are the owners of premises 2176 East 4th Street, upon which they legally operated a beauty parlor. They also converted what was a one-family dwelling into a two-family house by building…