Bangor v. Goding
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Tenney, J., presiding. The city of Bangor contracted with Thompson and Files to erect a school-house upon land belonging to the city. These defendants did a part of the work for Thompson and Files.
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Tenney, J., presiding. The city of Bangor contracted with Thompson and Files to erect a school-house upon land belonging to the city. These defendants did a part of the work for Thompson and Files. To secure them for doing the work, they claimed a lien upon the school-house and its lot, under the provisions of R. S. c. 125, $ 37, which gave liens for labor and materials furnished in erecting any buildings, “by virtue of any contract with the owner thereof or other person who had contracted with such owner." To make the lien available, they instituted a suit against…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
— The city made a contract with Thompson and Files to build a school-house. Goding and Wood, the defendants, worked on that house for Thompson and *74Piles ; commenced a suit against them; recovered judgment, and caused an execution thereon to be levied upon a part of the house and a lot of land, on which it had been erected.
The suit was commenced and an attachment of the house and lot made on March 16, 1850. The judgment was rendered on Feb. 11, 1851. The levy was made on March 5, 1851.
An amendment of the statute, c. 125, § 37, was made by an Act approved on June 28, 1850, “ by striking out the…
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