Cheney v. . Troy Hospital Association
New York Court of Appeals
These appeals are from judgments of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, each affirming a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee.
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These appeals are from judgments of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, each affirming a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee. The actions were brought to enforce liens claimed by the respective plaintiffs on land in the city of Troy belonging to the defendant, under the provisions of the act entitled “ An act for the better security of mechanics and others erecting, altering or repairing buildings and furnishing materials therefor, in the county of Bensselaer,” passed June 26, 1865, and designated as chapter 778 of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Lott, Ch. C.
I have reached the conclusion, after a careful examination and full consideration of the provisions of the act under which the plaintiffs have been declared to be entitled to a lien on the land of the defendant for the amounts of their respective recoveries, that the several judgments recovered by them should be reversed.
It is therefore necessary to refer, with particularity, to the several provisions of the act which affect the question. The most material of them are contained in the first, second and third sections, which are in the following terms, viz.:
“ Section 1. Any person…
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