Air Service Co. v. Cosmo Investments, Inc.

Debn, Judge.

Both parties agree that the only issue before us is whether Code § 67-2001 gives a lessor of machinery consisting of an air compressor and drill a lien on real estate for the rental value of the machinery leased to a contractor who uses it in improving the real estate of the owner against whom the lien is sought. The statute covers, among others, “all machinists and manufacturers of machinery, including corporations engaged in such business, who may furnish or put up in any county any steam mill or other machinery, or who may repair the same.” In Loudon v. Coleman, 59 Ga. 653, the…