Crane Co. v. Erie Heating Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: John W. Knowles, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Eakin. This is a suit by Crane & Company, a private corporation, against the Erie Heating Co., a private corporation, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co., a corporation, Alfred J. Bingham and Joseph McClelland, partners as Bingham & McClelland, and Robert Wakefield, to foreclose a materialman’s lien.
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From Union: John W. Knowles, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Eakin. This is a suit by Crane & Company, a private corporation, against the Erie Heating Co., a private corporation, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co., a corporation, Alfred J. Bingham and Joseph McClelland, partners as Bingham & McClelland, and Robert Wakefield, to foreclose a materialman’s lien. The defendant Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company is the owner of the real estate at La Grande, Oregon, described in the complaint, occupied by it in connection with the operation of its railroad for side tracks, roundhouse, shops,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eakin
The controversy is whether the facts created a material-man’s lien upon the buildings and property of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company.
For the purpose of aiding mechanics and laborers and materialmen in collecting their compensation for labor and material furnished in the construction of a building or other structure, the statute (Section 5640, B. & C. Comp.) has provided that every person performing labor or furnishing material to be used in the construction of any building or structure shall have a lien upon the same for labor or material furnished at the instance of the owner of…
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