Wildwood Amusement Co. v. Stout Lumber Co.

This appeal questions the correctness of the decree of the Union Chancery Court enforcing a mechanic’s lien against the surface lease and the improvements on certain suburban real estate some two or three miles north of the city of El Dorado. The facts, briefly stated, are as follows:

On May 28, 1925, William Goodwin and wife executed the lease in question to Dave Reid for a term of five years, beginning June 1 thereafter, which lease was properly recorded. On June 6, 1925, Reid and his wife assigned the same lease to appellant, Wildwood Amusement 'Company, a corporation, which assignment was…