Norman & Co. v. Edington

The single question raised by the facts found by the court of chancery appeals in the present case is whether complainants, as assignees of claims for work and labor done in the construction of the Knoxville, La Follette & Jellico Railroad Company, by the employees of an insolvent subcontractor, can enforce a statutory lien for these claims, where their assignors (the employees) had *311failed to give notice to the railroad company of the fact that they relied upon this lien for the security of,these claims, but subsequent to the assignments the' complainants themselves, as such assignees, gave…