Wark Co. v. Beach Hotel Corporation

This action is brought to foreclose a mechanic’s lien and comes to us upon a reservation. For the solution of the questions propounded to us we do not need to consider many of the facts in the stipulation and shall confine ourselves to those pertinent to the particular issue before us.

On May 26th, 1927, Francis E. Beach owned the land described in the certificate of lien and on that day he entered into a contract with the Development Service Corporation, in which provisions were made for financing the erection of a hotel building on the premises and the organization of a corporation to lease…