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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Arthur J. McCarten, Respondent, v. Carroll W. Prochaska, as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of Liberty Engineering Corporation, Appellant.
   — Order and judgment of the City Court of Mount Vernon modified so as to provide that the plaintiff is entitled to recover on his claim the sum of $616.66, that defendant is entitled to recover on the counterclaim the sum of $326.45, and that plaintiff have judgment for the difference, to wit, $290.21. As so modified, the order and the judgment are unanimously affirmed, without costs. A consideration of the terms of the lease and of the surrounding circumstances indicates that it was the intention of the parties that the tenant should pay one-half of the expenses necessary to the erection of the third story and subsequent alterations necessarily incident thereto. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Carswell and Tompkins, JJ.