Crawford v. Sterling
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill to Enforce Mechanics Lien. Appeal from Morgan Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by I). Crawford against A. E. Sterling and others to enforce a mechanic’s or material-man’s lien. From a decree for respondent, complainants appeal. The complainant-had a right to enforce his lien upon the two lots, although his notice and statement was single and embraced both lots in one.- — Phillips v. Gilbert, 101 XJ.
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Bill to Enforce Mechanics Lien. Appeal from Morgan Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by I). Crawford against A. E. Sterling and others to enforce a mechanic’s or material-man’s lien. From a decree for respondent, complainants appeal. The complainant-had a right to enforce his lien upon the two lots, although his notice and statement was single and embraced both lots in one.- — Phillips v. Gilbert, 101 XJ. S. 721; Lyon v. Logan, 68 Tex. 525; Surgeon v. D envoy, 87 Ya. 208; Premier Steel Co. v. McEhoain, 144 Inch 119; Maryland Brick Go. v. Spellman, 76 Mel. 342; Ore. 50; 3…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The decree must be affirmed, for the reason that the notice (Civ. Code 1896, § 2731), and the statement filed in the probate office (Civ. Code 1896,. § 2727), both exhibited with the bill, which seeks the enforcement of a materialman’s lien, attempt to embrace, in each without separation, a lien on two separate lots in New Decatur. Phillips on Mech. Liens, § 376; Gocciola v. Wood-Dickerson Co., 136 Ala. 532, 33 South. 856; Fitzgerald v. Thomas, 61 Mo. 499. The theory of our system (Civ. Code, 1896, c. 71, art. 1) is that the subject of the betterment afforded by the labor, material, or…
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