Chapin v. Persse & Brooks Paper Works
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill for the foreclosure of a lien for materials furnished to three paper mills in the town of Windsor Locks belonging to the defendants. The facts were found by a committee to whom the case was referred.
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Bill for the foreclosure of a lien for materials furnished to three paper mills in the town of Windsor Locks belonging to the defendants. The facts were found by a committee to whom the case was referred. The mills at the time when the materials were furnished were being constructed by, and were the property of, Dudley Persse and Horace Brooks, partners under the name of Persse & Brooks, and were sold and conveyed by them, with their interest in the land on which they stood, to the present defendants, a corporation, about the time the buildings were completed. The mills were known…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
The plaintiffs, who are dealers in lumber, seek to foreclose a lien claimed by them on three paper mills *471at Windsor Locks, for the lumber furnished by them for the purpose of repairing the mills. The defendants first make the question whether the plaintiffs are within the class of persons entitled to the privilege of having their debts secured by liens on buildings erected or repaired. It is said that the statute only applies to the cases of contractors or sub-contractors for the erection or repair of buildings, and that as the plaintiffs are neither, but only ordinary venders of lumber, they…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rose v. Persse & Brooks Paper WorksSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
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