Hamilton v. Means

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

We shall not discuss all the reasons advanced by the appellants, the owners of the liened property, in their petition to strike off the mechanic’s lien filed by the appellee. -The following are sufficient to require the lien to be stricken off.(1) The Mechanic’s Lien Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 431, uses certain technical words, which are defined in the Act and used therein in the sense of those definitions. One of the words so defined is ‘contractor’. A claimant in filing his claim may use either the word so defined, or the meaning or definition ascribed to it. Thus…