206 A.D. 167 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1923
It appears that some two months after this action was commenced, the claim of the defendant, respondent, Schaefer matured. He thereupon served and filed a notice of lien and procured an order amending the pleadings so as to insert his name, but failed to amend the lis pendens already filed by the plaintiff so as to include his name therein as a party or to serve a lis pendens on his own behalf.
It would seem that the motion to cancel the notice of lien must be granted under the express provisions of section 17 of the Lien Law-(as amd. by Laws of 1916, chap. 507), which provides: “ No lien specified in this article shall be a lien for a longer period than one year after the notice of lien has been filed, unless within that time an action is commenced to foreclose the lien, and a notice of the pendency of such action, whether in a court of record or in a court not of record, is filed with the county clerk of the county in which the notice of lien is filed, containing the names of the parties to the action, the object of the action, a brief description of the real property affected thereby, and the time of filing the notice of lien; or unless an order be granted within one year from the filing of such notice by a court of record or a judge or justice thereof, continuing such lien.”
Thus the principle of Us pendens, which prevailed in actions real under the common law and equity and was held to be constructive notice based on public policy arising from the pendency of the action, has been limited by statute to those whose names are now actually contained in the notice of pendency of the action or deemed to be included therein by an order of the court. There is no contention in the case at bar that the name of the respondent was thus included in the original notice of pendency of action or that any order was made continuing the lien within the period of one year as required by the provisions of the Lien Law above quoted. (Lien Law, § 17, supra.) “ The office of a lis pendens is to give notice to all parties searching for liens against realty.” (Lien Law of New York [6th ed. Snyder], 260.) As was said in Danziger v. Simonson (116 N. Y. 329, 334): “ The object of the notice of pendency of action was to give notice to subsequent purchasers or incumbrancers, and all persons interested, of the nature of the claim, that an action had been commenced upon it and was pending, so that purchasers, incumbrancers and persons having an interest might be warned and placed upon their guard. There is just as much necessity for a notice of pendency to be filed where a foreclosure action is brought as there is when an action is brought to foreclose another mechanic’s lien. The notice
Nothing, therefore, has dispensed with the necessity of having the names of the parties in the notice of pendency, for if they were not included, the real function of a notice of pendency of action would be abrogated. The provisions of the statute providing for a lien not having been complied with, the lien is lost. “ The duration of a hen is prescribed by statute and the right to enforce it, like the right to file and create it, is derived therefrom, and each is entirely dependent upon its terms.” (Berger Mfg. Co. v. City of New York, 206 N. Y. 24, 29.)
It follows that the order appealed from should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted, with ten dollars costs.
Clarke, P. J., Dowling, McAvoy and Martin, JJ., concur.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.