Case Name: John D. Ross, App'lt, v. John Simon, Impleaded, Resp't
Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1890-06-02
Citations: 32 N.Y. St. Rep. 74
Docket Number: 
Parties: John D. Ross, App’lt, v. John Simon, Impleaded, Resp’t.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 32
Pages: 74–75

Head Matter:
John D. Ross, App’lt, v. John Simon, Impleaded, Resp’t.
(New York Common Pleas, General Term
Filed June 2, 1890.)
Mechanic’s lien — Pleadin».
The case of Cornell v. Barney. 94 ST. Y., 394, does not affect the question of what is necessary to plead in the complaint in order to admit evidence to hold the lessor, hut only goes as to what evidence would he-required in such a case.
Motion for a re-argument of an appeal heard at the March general term of this court, or for leave to go to the court of appeals.
Stephen Phiíbin, for motion; J. G. De La Mare, opposed. .
See 30 N. Y. State Rep., 545.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The appeal was from a judgment of the general term of the city court affirming a judgment upon demurrer. There were but two questions upon the appeal. The first was whether or not the statement in the lien was sufficient as against the owner; and the second was whether the allegations in the complaint that the defendant, the owner, had full knowledge of and consented to the doing of the work was a sufficient pleading of the facts. The re-argument is asked for on the authority of Cornell v. Barney, 94 N. Y., 394, which the respondent claims his counsel through inadvertence overlooked and to which he failed to draw the attention of the court. But that case does not touch the question of the sufficiency of the notice of a lien in any way, and the sole question decided there was that, in order to bind the owner, the work must be done or materials furnished at his instance or that of his agent, and in the absence of evidence that the lessor had some connection with plaintiff's contract, plaintiff is not entitled to have or enforce a lien against the interest of the lessor in the land or building, but only against that of the lessee. This does not affect the question of what is necessary to plead in the complaint in order to admit evidence to hold the lessor; it only goes as to what evidence would be required in such a case, and that distinction was expressly made by the general term which reversed the judgment in this case.
The motion for a re-argument or for leave to go to the court of appeals will, therefore, be denied, with ten dollars costs.
Larremore, Ch. J., and Bookstaver, J., concur.