City Maintenance Corp. v. McDonald

1 Citing case

  1. Canister Co. v. National Can Corporation.

    71 F. Supp. 45 (D. Del. 1947)   Cited 6 times

    The Devlin case was cited with approval in New York as recently as 1940. See City Maintenance Corp. v. McDonald, Sup., 19 N.Y.S.2d 692. The following types of contracts have been held not to be personal in character and hence to be fully assignable; a contract for paving of municipal streets (Brewster v. City of Hornellsville, 35 App. Div. 161, 54 N.Y.S. 904); a contract to build an elevated railway (New England Iron Co. v. Gilbert El. R. Co., 91 N.Y. 153); a contract to build a synagogue (Levy v. Cohen, 103 App. Div. 195, 92 N.Y.S. 1074); a contract for the demolition of buildings (Wetter v. Kleinert, 139 App. Div. 220, 123 N.Y.S. 755): a contract to build a steamboat (Vandegrift v. Cowles Engineering Co., 161 N. T. 435, 55 N.E. 941, 48 L.R.A. 685); a contract to redecorate a dwelling (Janvey v. Loketz, 122 App. Div. 411, 106 N.Y.S. 690); a contract to defend patent infringement claims (Rosenthal Paper Co. v. National Folding Box Paper Co., 226 N.Y. 313, 123 N.E. 766); a contract containing an arbitration clause (Matter of Lowenthal, 199 App. Div. 39, 191 N.Y.S. 282, affirmed 233 N.Y. 621, 135 N.E. 944); a contrac