Pennsylvania Steel Co. v. J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Suit by the Pennsylvania Steel Company against J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Company and others to enforce a lien. Decree for defendants. Complainant appeals. The J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Company was a corporation organized under the laws of Michigan for the purpose, among others, of carrying on a lumber and logging business in that state.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Suit by the Pennsylvania Steel Company against J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Company and others to enforce a lien. Decree for defendants. Complainant appeals. The J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Company was a corporation organized under the laws of Michigan for the purpose, among others, of carrying on a lumber and logging business in that state. Incident to such business, it owned or was interested in extensive tracts of land in the counties of Oscoda, Iosco, Alcona,'and Ogemaw, on which it carried on its operations. For the purpose…
1Opinion of the CourtSeverers, District Judge
The statutes of Michigan have, from the time when it was a territory, afforded to those furnishing labor or materials in the construction of buildings on the lands of others a lien for the price and value thereof on the land itself. By successive enactments, the scope of provision for the creation and enforcement of such liens has been considerably extended. At the time when the materials were furnished and the proceedings were taken in the present case to enforce a lien therefor, the act of 1885, found at page 293 of the Session Laws of that year, was in force; and the principal question to…
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