Case ID: nys_148/html/0260-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NORTH SIDE HOISTING CO., Inc., v. WENDOVER BRONX CO. et al.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department.
    June 18, 1914.)
    Mechanics’ Liens (§ 227)—Notice—Verification.
    An action to enforce a mechanic’s lien, which had been bonded by a surety company, would be dismissed as to the surety, where the notice of lien was not verified.
    [Ed. Note.-—For other cases, see Mechanics’ Liens, Cent.. Dig. § 410; Dec. Dig. § 227.*]
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of the Bronx, Second District.
    Action by the North Side Hoisting Company, Incorporated, against the Wendover Bronx Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
    Modified and affirmed.
    Argued June term, 1914, before SEABURY, BIJUR, and PAGE, JJ.
    Paul Englander, of New York City, for appellants.
    William A. Todd, of New York City, for respondent.
    
      
      For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes
    
   PER CURIAM.

This action was brought to enforce a mechanics’ lien, which had been bonded. As the notice of lien is not verified, the complaint must be dismissed as to the surety, the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company.

In the absence of proof that at the time of the filing of the notice any sum was due the contractor, under whom plaintiff claims, the only recovery possible is on the agreement of the defendants Wendover Bronx Company and Abraham Silverson “to pay the hoisting bill of not over $250.”

The judgment will therefore be modified, by reducing the same to $250, with appropriate costs in the court below, and dismissing the complaint as against the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, and, as so modified, affirmed, without costs of this appeal.