Moncrief v. Hall

THOMAS, Justice.

This appeal springs from a decree of the chancellor confirming the findings of the master and foreclosing the lien of the appellee on property of the appellants for work done and material furnished in the improvement of the property by removing, stumps from it and covering the surface with several hundred cubic yards of earth.

It was claimed in the bill that the appel-lee was requested by the appellants to clear and fill the land and that there arose an obligation on their part to pay him for the reasonable value of the labor and materials supplied to that end.

The appellants…