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ABRA CONSTRUCTION v. WHITE STREET DEV

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
May 11, 2000
272 A.D.2d 138 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)

Opinion

May 11, 2000.

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered February 4 and February 14, 2000, which reduced the amount of the mechanic's lien filed by plaintiff to $64,889.12, unanimously modified, on the facts, to adjust the amount to $68,909.12, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Robert J. Miletsky, for plaintiff-appellant.

Grace Van Hulsteyn, for defendants-respondents.

SULLIVAN, P.J., ROSENBERGER, ELLERIN, LERNER, FRIEDMAN, JJ.


The amount claimed in plaintiff's lien was obviously excessive since the contract admittedly was only 35% performed (Lien Law § 9). The revised amount that plaintiff then claimed, in response to the court's order to submit a statement of "actual labor performed and materials delivered", improperly included retainage, which under the parties' contract was not due until the project was substantially completed, site supervision, which was covered under the General Conditions portion of the parties' contract and should not have been separately stated, and work that plaintiff allegedly performed after defendant allegedly directed it to stop.

We modify simply to correct an apparent arithmetic error.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.


Summaries of

ABRA CONSTRUCTION v. WHITE STREET DEV

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
May 11, 2000
272 A.D.2d 138 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
Case details for

ABRA CONSTRUCTION v. WHITE STREET DEV

Case Details

Full title:ABRA CONSTRUCTION CORP., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WHITE STREET DEVELOPMENT…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: May 11, 2000

Citations

272 A.D.2d 138 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
708 N.Y.S.2d 853