Gress Lumber Co. v. Rogers
Supreme Court of Georgia
Actions. Parties. Equity. Before Judge Roberts. Pulaski superior court. November term, 1889. On April 6, 1886, the Gress Lumber Co., a corporation, recorded its claim of lien, as material-men and owners of a saw-mill and other machinery engaged in the manufacture of lumber and other building material, on the college building, appurtenances and improvements and the real estate upon which the same was built, of the New Ebenezer Association, of Pulaski county, for lumber and…
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Actions. Parties. Equity. Before Judge Roberts. Pulaski superior court. November term, 1889. On April 6, 1886, the Gress Lumber Co., a corporation, recorded its claim of lien, as material-men and owners of a saw-mill and other machinery engaged in the manufacture of lumber and other building material, on the college building, appurtenances and improvements and the real estate upon which the same was built, of the New Ebenezer Association, of Pulaski county, for lumber and material furnished to that association for building the college and improving the real estate, to the amount of $437.98,…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The petition in this case, together with the amendments offered thereto, made out a good case in equity, so as to authorize the plaintiff in error to recover the amount sued for; that is to say, the court, under the allegations in the petition, would have been authorized to decree that the college building and the property upon which it stood were liable to pay the debt of the plaintiff in error, and that the plaintiff in error had a good lien thereon for the value of the lumber furnished by it to build the college building. It is true the New Ebenezer Association, not…
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