Simons Brick Co. v. Hetzel

The Harbolt Hotel Corporation was, on the seventeenth day of April, 1917, the owner of a certain lot in the city of Los Angeles, and on said day said company entered into a written contract with one Valentine Hetzel for the erection on said lot of a hotel building. Said contract was not filed for record in the office of the county recorder of said county until the ninth day of June, 1917. On April 30, 1917, said hotel company executed a mortgage upon said real property in favor of appellant, the Western Loan and Building Company, to secure the payment of a promissory note for $42,972.50, and…