Gray v. Carleton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Sheprey, C. J., presiding. Writ oe Entry. In 1848, Thomas Warren owned a lot of land, and agreed verbally with one Rowe, to sell it to him for $500, and to make some advances of materials and money to help Rowe to build a house upon it. Warren was to own the land and house, until paid the purchase money and advances, and then convey it to Rowe. Rowe proceeded to build the house, receiving from Warren the promised advances.
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Sheprey, C. J., presiding. Writ oe Entry. In 1848, Thomas Warren owned a lot of land, and agreed verbally with one Rowe, to sell it to him for $500, and to make some advances of materials and money to help Rowe to build a house upon it. Warren was to own the land and house, until paid the purchase money and advances, and then convey it to Rowe. Rowe proceeded to build the house, receiving from Warren the promised advances. This demandant did the plastering, by the yard, under a contract with Rowe, finishing it on July 8, 1848, and on Oct. 7, 1848, in order to secure…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
— The demandant appears to have labored during the year 1848 upon a house built by Henry Rowe, on land then owned by Thomas Warren, who had, as Rowe states, agreed to provide certain materials and to assist him with money to enable him to build the house, and had agreed to convey the land, on which it was to be built, upon payment of an agreed price, and of the money advanced, and of the value of the materials furnished.
The demandant caused the estate to be attached to secure a lien for payment of his services ; recovered judgment against Rowe, in October, 1850, and caused an execution issued…
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