Taylor v. Springfield Lumber Co.

The plaintiff is the purchaser at a mortgagee’s foreclosure sale of the premises described in the bill. The defendants have obtained judgments establishing mechanic’s liens on the premises for labor and materials, and decrees have been entered ordering a sale. The plaintiff seeks to restrain the sale on the ground that the liens are not entitled to priority over the mortgage for the reason that the defendants “ did not make a contract for or perform or furnish any labor or . . . materials for the erection of said building until after the execution and recording of the mortgage under which the…