Lane v. Wood

Two questions are presented in this case: First, whether under a bill tiled to enforce a mechanic’s lien, a clerk and master can grant a writ of attachment. Second, whether the lien attaches to the fixtures and machinery furnished and erected by plaintiff in the form of a mill on the lands of a party, independent of and beyond the lien given under sec. 1981 of the Code [Shannon’s Code, sec. 3531], upon any lot of ground or tract of land on which such machinery or structure may be erected.

To the first question, we answer the clerk had no power to grant the writ. Attachments, authorized to be…