Parris v. Tennessee Power Co.

The bill in this case was filed by Parris and numerous other persons to have declared their lien upon a line of railway belonging to the defendant for the amounts due them for labor done for George Richmond, a subcontractor under the Converse Bridge Company, in constructing bridge work on the line. The lien is claimed under, section 1 of chapter 98, of the Acts of 1891. So much of the section as need be copied reads:

“Hereafter every subcontractor, laborer, mate-rialman or other person who performs any part of the work in grading any railroad company’s roadway, *200or who constructs or aids in the…