Chenoweth-Holder Lumber Co. v. Beck & Jones

Beck & Jones, a partnership, and others brought their equitable petition against Chenoweth-Holder Lumber Co. (hereinafter called the Chenoweth Company) and the Leeper Realty Company. In the suit the petitioners sought to have established and declared the priority of their lien as contractors, mechanics, laborers, and materialmen, as against the security deed executed by the Leeper Realty Company to the Chenoweth Company. It appears that on August 18, 1928, the Leeper Realty Company, which was then the owner of a number of lots in Eloyd County, Georgia, known as Northwood Heights, entered into…