Opinion
2002-04956
Argued January 17, 2003.
February 13, 2003.
In an action, inter alia, to foreclose a public improvement lien, the defendant Carter-Melence, Inc., appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Tanenbaum, J.), dated May 6, 2002, which denied its motion pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) and (3) to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against it.
Marshall M. Stern, Huntington Station, N.Y., for appellant.
Elias C. Schwartz, Great Neck, N.Y. (Michelle Englander of counsel), for respondent.
Before: ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P., WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, BARRY A. COZIER, WILLIAM F. MASTRO, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Under the circumstances of this case, and considering the liberal construction given to the Lien Law (see Lien Law § 23), the Supreme Court correctly determined that the plaintiff properly filed the lien at issue (see Lien Law § 12; Hawkins v. Maple-Reeves Const. Co., 178 N.Y. 236).
FLORIO, J.P., FRIEDMANN, COZIER and MASTRO, JJ., concur.