Gordon Hardware Co. v. San Francisco & San Rafael Railroad

This is an action by materialmen to enforce a lien for material furnished to certain original contractors to be used under their contract “to construct the excavations, embankments, tunnels, box culverts, rubble walls, and such bridges as might be designated by the chief engineer of said railroad company on all that portion of the located line of railroad, then projected, of the San Francisco and San Rafael Railroad lying between the town of San Rafael and Point Tiburon in Marin county,” with certain exceptions not necessary here to repeat. The case turns entirely upon the question of whether…