Buerger Investment Co. v. B. F. Salzer Lumber Co.

The defendants in error had a decree in a suit to foreclose mechanics liens claimed by them against property upon which plaintiff in error held mortgages. The mortgagee brings error.

The errors argued are that the court erroneously allowed interest on the lien claims, that all the liens were invalid because they purported to cover several pieces of property in one statement (i. e., were blanket liens, so called), without the statutory sanction that they were upon one contract;, and that some of them were invalid for other reasons.

One Taylor owned four pairs of lots and upon each pair built a…