Johnson Service Co. v. Hildebrand
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, George Hildebrand and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff and the defendant The Babcock & Wilcox Company, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of April, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action to foreclose a municipal lien. On the 25th day of June, 1901, the appellant Hildebrand entered into a contract with the city for the erection of a public hath building in the borough' of Brooklyn, pursuant to certain plans and specifications, for the gross sum of §165,480. On the 10th day of February, 1908, he sublet the furnishing of materials and the work required in heating and ventilating the building to the defendant R. J. Sovereign Company, Inc., for the gross sum of §21,000; and on the thirteenth day of the same month the Sovereign Company in turn sublet…
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