Mortgage & Trust, Inc. v. Bonner & Co., Inc.

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a mechanic’s and materialman’s lien case involving the priority of a mechanic’s and materialman’s lien asserted by Bonner & Co., a contractor, and the recorded deed of trust lienholder, Mortgage and Trust. Bonner brought suit against a number of defendants to establish and foreclose a constitutional and a statutory mechanic’s and materialman’s lien. Trial was to the court without the intervention of a jury. The trial court entered a joint and several judgment against Mortgage and Trust and Sundance (the present owner of the land), for $34,307.18, representing…