Tilford v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to the court of common pleas of Alleghany county. This was a scire facias upon a mechanic’s lien, brought by Robert Wallace against James Tilford, the plaintiff in error. The lien was filed against a brick house “ situate on an eminence between the Pittsburgh and Greensburgh turnpike, and the village of Lawrence-ville.” The scire facias recited the words of the lien, as to the situation of the building.
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WRIT of error to the court of common pleas of Alleghany county. This was a scire facias upon a mechanic’s lien, brought by Robert Wallace against James Tilford, the plaintiff in error. The lien was filed against a brick house “ situate on an eminence between the Pittsburgh and Greensburgh turnpike, and the village of Lawrence-ville.” The scire facias recited the words of the lien, as to the situation of the building. On the trial of the cause in the court below, it was in proof that the building was not in the village of Lawrence-ville, or in any village possessing a name, but was in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
By an act of assembly, passed the 22d of March *1431817, the operation of the acts granting to mechanics and others a lien on buildings, was extended to a number of towns in the state, and among the rest to Lawrenceville, in Alleghany county. This village was laid out within about two miles of Pittsburgh, and a plan of it filed in the recorder’s office. Some time after, the plaintiff below erected a building for the defendant, not within the limits of the village, but on an outlot adjacent to it, and filed his claim for a lien under this…
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- Deeds v. Imperial Brick Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
- Boalton v. Phillips, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County1944