McAdams v. Piedmont Trust Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant trust company from Lyon, J., at January Term, 1914, of AlamaNce. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendants S. A. Morrow and wife the sum-of $1,264.50,'alleged to be the balance due bim on a contract, dated 14 June, 1911, to erect a hotel building for them on their lot, 36 x 70 feet, in the city of Burlington, opposite the Presbyterian Church.
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Appeal by defendant trust company from Lyon, J., at January Term, 1914, of AlamaNce. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendants S. A. Morrow and wife the sum-of $1,264.50,'alleged to be the balance due bim on a contract, dated 14 June, 1911, to erect a hotel building for them on their lot, 36 x 70 feet, in the city of Burlington, opposite the Presbyterian Church. Defendants, the Morrows, on 19 July, 1911, which was some time prior to the date when plaintiff first commenced to do the work and to furnish the materials under the contract, executed to the Piedmont Trust…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: There was a motion to nonsuit the plaintiff, to the refusal of which and to alleged errors in other rulings exceptions were duly taken, but we need consider only one of them, which is the denial of the defendant’s motion for judgment upon the verdict, as we think the defendant trust company was entitled to have this motion granted, and as this will finally dispose of the case, we confine our attention to it.
Construing our statute on liens of mechanics and laborers, this Court held in Burr v. Maltsby, 99 N. C., 263, that the lien relates back to the time the…
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