Case Name: Arthur J. McCarten, Respondent, v. Carroll W. Prochaska, as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of Liberty Engineering Corporation, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1932-11
Citations: 236 A.D. 851
Docket Number: 
Parties: Arthur J. McCarten, Respondent, v. Carroll W. Prochaska, as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of Liberty Engineering Corporation, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 236
Pages: 851–852

Head Matter:
Arthur J. McCarten, Respondent, v. Carroll W. Prochaska, as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of Liberty Engineering Corporation, Appellant.

Opinion:
— 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.