Harman v. Cummings
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Snyder county. This was a scire facias sur mechanic s lien by Christian Har- ' man against A. S. Cummings and wife, owners or reputed owners of a two-storied brick dwelling, forty-three feet in front by sixty-two feet in depth, in Penn township.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Snyder county. This was a scire facias sur mechanic s lien by Christian Har- ' man against A. S. Cummings and wife, owners or reputed owners of a two-storied brick dwelling, forty-three feet in front by sixty-two feet in depth, in Penn township. The evidence showed these material facts : — Before the work for which the claim was filed had been commenced, there was on the premises a building twenty-five or more feet in front and about thirty-two feet deep, to which was attached a large brick back building. The defendants wished to enlarge their house and make some…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Lowrie, C. J.
The court below decided that the new wing added to the defendants’ house was not a building within the meaning of the Mechanics’ Lien Laws ; and we think that several cases (2 Barr 79; 4 Casey 156 ; 11 Id. 348, 349), which we need not repeat here, require us to reverse the judgment.
In strict propriety, the claim ought not to have averred that the work was done in the erection of the whole house, but only of the new part; but we do not now see that this is material, for only the work pertaining to the new wing, and that which connects it…
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