Murray v. Rapley
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. . Hon. W. I. Warwick, Chancellor. A mechanic’s lien is exclusively the creature of the statute. Phillips on Mee. Lien, p. 15, and cases cited. Does not arise out of the contract for labor. 54 Maine, 345 ; Tilford v. Wallace, 3 Watts (Tenn.), 141; Peak v Hensley, 21 Ind., 344; 3Ion-tandcr v Dens, 14 Ala., U. S., 33. Nor depend on motives.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. . Hon. W. I. Warwick, Chancellor. A mechanic’s lien is exclusively the creature of the statute. Phillips on Mee. Lien, p. 15, and cases cited. Does not arise out of the contract for labor. 54 Maine, 345 ; Tilford v. Wallace, 3 Watts (Tenn.), 141; Peak v Hensley, 21 Ind., 344; 3Ion-tandcr v Dens, 14 Ala., U. S., 33. Nor depend on motives. Gordon v. Toney, 2 McCarden, ch. (N. J.) 112; Bailey v. Mason, 4 Minn., 546; 2 Green (Iowa) 308; 8 S. and R., 58; 12 •Cal., 542; 35 N. Y., 36; 2 Abbott’s Pr. R. (N. Y.), 100; 6 Tenn., 187; 58 Tenn. 383; 2 Ind., 304. See…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.:
Murray filed his bill in which he set up his demand for $300 and asserted a mechanic’s lien upon certain real estate, for work, labor and materials upon a building situate thereon.
His suit is founded upon the following instrument: “Little Rock, October 22, 1872. For value received I hereby acknowledge myself indebted to B. Murray in the sum of $300 for work and labor done, and materials furnished in painting my house on the property near the City of Little Rock, known as ‘Emerald Hill/ and to secure the payment of which said sum of $300,1 hereby acknowledge the said debt to be a…
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