Drake Lumber Co. v. Paget Mortgage Co.

Plaintiff, Drake Lumber Company, commenced two suits, each to foreclose a mechanic’s lien for material furnished by it, and also liens of other suppliers of building material which had been assigned to it. The suits were consolidated for trial, and resulted in decrees foreclosing Drake’s liens and fixing the order of priority as between such liens and liens of certain prior recorded mortgages upon the properties involved held by the defendant Paget Mortgage Company. Paget appealed from portions of the decrees adverse to it, and the appeals were consolidated for hearing in this court. The only…