Shelton v. Ogus

In this litigation1 Gordon W. Shelton, hereinafter called appellant, seeks to enforce mechanic’s liens taken out by him upon six different houses and lots of land owned by appellees, Walter M. and Valerie E. Ogus. From a decree of October 24, 1958, which held Shelton’s liens to be invalid, he obtained an appeal.

On October 7, 1957, appellant filed in the appropriate clerk’s office *418memoranda of mechanic’s liens on a number of houses built in Normandy Village, a residential subdivision in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Six of the liens were asserted respectively against lots 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, and…