Graves v. . Dockery

The only assignment of error contained in the record is the ruling made by the trial judge “that plaintiffs were not entitled to a lien on the property described in the complaint or in the lien.” Therefore, the question of law arising is whether prior to chapter 69, Public Laws 1929, a person cutting and hauling logs to a mill can thereafter acquire a lien upon the lumber by virtue of C. S., 2436.

C. S., 2436, provides a lien upon lumber for “every person doing the work of cutting or sawing logs into lumber,” etc. This statute was construed in Glazener v. Lumber Co., 167 N. C., 676, 83 S. E.,…