Amiesite Construction Corp. v. Luciano Contracting & Building Co.
This text of 259 A.D. 826 (Amiesite Construction Corp. v. Luciano Contracting & Building Co.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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The assignment to respondent Fiore gave rights to the fund in question which were superior to any acquired by the appellant unless such result was prevented by the Lien Law. (Laws of 1909, chap. 38.) The plaintiff not having filed a lien, the rights that might have accrued thereunder have been lost and it occupies the position of an ordinary creditor. (Edison El. Illuminating Co. v. Frick Co., 221 N. Y. 1; Lee v. Bailey Corporation, 240 App. Div. 65; modfd., 267 N. Y. 161.)
Lazansky, P. J., Johnston and Adel, JJ., concur; Taylor, J., dissents and, in so far as appealed from, votes to reverse the judgment on the law, with costs, and to direct judgment in favor of plaintiff, except as to the temporary injunction prayed for, with costs, with opinion. Close, J„ concurs with Taylor, J,
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