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

John J. Fox and Catherine Fox, Appellants, v. T. E. Realty Co., Inc., Respondent.
   Order directing that the notice of pendency of the action be canceled of record, and order denying motion for reargument affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. No opinion. Jayeox, Manning, Young and Lazansky, JJ., concur; Kelly, P. J., dissents, with the following memorandum: I am unable to agree with my associates. I think the judgment demanded by the plaintiffs vitally affects the possession, use and enjoyment of the defendant’s premises, against which the notice of pendency of action .has been filed. If the plaintiffs succeed, the wall of defendant’s premises, which it is alleged encroaches on plaintiffs’ property, may be decreed to be taken down and removed. While the alleged encroachment may be upon the plaintiffs’ land, the result of the removal of the encroachment would leave the house erected upon defendant’s property "without a side wall. In Ackerman v. True (44 App. Div. 106), cited by respondent, this court, in the First Department, reversed an order denying a motion to cancel a notice of lis pendens, upon the ground that the alleged encroachments were not on the defendant’s premises and that it was an abuse of process to allow such a lis pendens to remain on file; but we know, from the subsequent history of that litigation in the reports (17/5 N. Y. 353), that the judgment prayed for in the complaint and finally granted resulted in the removal of the front wall of the houses erected on the defendant’s land with consequent serious damage to the premises described in the notice of lis pendens and interference "with the possession, use and enjoyment of the defendant’s property. In such a case it would appear that possible purchasers of defendant’s property should have notice of the pendency of the litigation under section 120 of the Civil Practice Act.