Bates v. J. D. McCollum Lumber Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

The parties will be designated as appellants and appellee. As assignee, appellee, J. D. McCollum Lumber Company, sued appellants J. M. Bates and wife, Eula L. Bates, on certain notes, and to foreclose a mechanic’s lien securing some of them. The only controverted issue was as to the validity of the mechanic’s lien, appellants alleging that the property in question was improved for the purpose of making it their homestead, and that the labor and material were furnished and the house completed before they executed the mechanic’s lien contract. The jury found, in answer to special…