Pace v. Shields-Geise Lumber Co.

This case was submitted to the trial court, on an agreed statement of facts, without the intervention of a jury. It involved the question whether certain land was subject to a claim. Mrs. Pace died owning the land, leaving a husband and three daughters as her sole heirs at law. Before- the appointment of an administrator the husband contracted individually with the ShieldsGeise Lumber Company to build a dwelling-house on the land in ' question. When the house was completed the husband defaulted in the payment of the contract price. The lumber company filed a materialman’s lien'on that portion…