Allis-Chalmers Co. v. Central Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. Suit in equity by the Central Trust Company oí New York against the Bod well Water Power Company and others. Appeals by the Allis-Chalmers Company and Clara E. Mullen and others, executors, mechanic’s lien claimants, from a decree denying them priority.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The appellants allege error in a decree of the Circuit Court to the effect that a mortgage, dated July 1, 1905, given by the Bodwell Water Power Company to the Central Trust Company of New York to secure an issue of $1,000,000 of bonds, constitutes a first lien on the mortgaged property; and that liens for labor and materials claimed by the Allis-Chalmers Company, and by James B. *702Mullen’s executors, respectively, are subject to the superior lien of the mortgage.
[1] In order that a lien may attach for labor and materials under chapter 93, § 29, Revised Statutes of Maine,…
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- Dresser v. Missouri & Iowa Railway Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Porter v. Pittsburg Bessemer Steel Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1887
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