Legal Opinion

Glading v. Frick

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 6, 1879PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term-1875, No. 130. Scire facias sur mechanic’s lien by George L. Erick and Michael K. Snyder, trading as Erick & Snyder, against Samuel Glading, owner, and E. Cassell, contractor. The claim was filed February 25th 1873, and was for $363, for materials furnished in the erection of a building on Susquehanna avenue, Philadelphia. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson

Wliat the precise ground was on which the verdict was set aside and judgment entered on the point reserved in favor of the plaintiffs below the record does not show. Against the mechanic’s ¡lien of the plaintiffs the defendants set up a written contract between Glading, the owner, and Franklin .Cassel, the contractor, for the erection of the building against which the lien was entered. The object of the evidence was to secure for the owner the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Assembly of 3d of April 1872, that where any building or buildings should'be erected in whole or in part by…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. M'Lanahan v. ReesideSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Prouty v. MarshallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
  2. Schenck v. BurgessSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  3. Ringle v. Penna. R. R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  4. Farabee v. McKerrihanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
  5. Casey v. CanningSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1909

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