Macrose Realty Corp. v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered December 20, 1974, dismissing defendant’s second and third affirmative defenses, unanimously reversed, on the law, and said defenses reinstated. Appellants shall recover of respondents $60 costs and disbursements of this appeal. Plaintiffs owned eight four-story apartment buildings which were constructed in 1926. They were demolished in 1968, as unsafe, pursuant to proceedings instituted by the city. The instant negligence action was contemporaneously instituted, predicated on the claim that the water table under said buildings was improperly…