Merlino v. Hall

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• personal liability section gives subcontractor an alternative means to a mechanic’s lien of shifting from himself to the owner the burden of the general contractor’s financial difficulty
• dis- cussing history of setoff doctrine and concluding that setoffs outside of bankruptcy are subsets of permissive counter- claims; holding that since amounts claimed were exceeded by setoff debts, plaintiff subcontractors were entitled to nothing

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