New York Court of Appeals November 14, 1876 (Schuyler v. . Hayward)

Alley, J.

The statute (chapter 500, of the Laws of 1863, section 14) declares that for the purposes of the act, any person who may have sold or disposed of lands upon an

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executory contract of. purchase contingent upon the erection of buildings thereon, shall be deemed the owner, and the vendee the contractor, and subjects the owner in" all respects to the provisions of the act.