Stapp v. Carb-Ice Corp.

This case involves two questions, the effectiveness of foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien as against (I) chattel property becoming a part of a manufacturing plant and then subsequently included in a chattel mortgage, and (II) real estate of a landlord upon which lessee, by the express and approving provisions of his lease, had caused a plant to be erected. The parties appear here in the same order as in the trial court.

The complaint discloses that the Stapp Engineering Company, a copartnership, entered into a contract with the Carb-Ice Corporation “to design, build and construct a plant to…