Lookout Lumber Co. v. Mansion Hotel & Belt Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Bynum, J., at Fall Term, 1891, of McDowell ¡¡Superior Court. It appears that F. T. Sanford contracted with the defendant to construct, upon its land specified in the complaint and situate in the county of McDowell, a building for the purposes of a hotel for the price of $31,000, and the plaintiff, a subcontractor, furnished to the said Sanford, for the purposes„of said building, materials of the value of $4,011.29, which sum remains due to the…
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Civil action, tried before Bynum, J., at Fall Term, 1891, of McDowell ¡¡Superior Court. It appears that F. T. Sanford contracted with the defendant to construct, upon its land specified in the complaint and situate in the county of McDowell, a building for the purposes of a hotel for the price of $31,000, and the plaintiff, a subcontractor, furnished to the said Sanford, for the purposes„of said building, materials of the value of $4,011.29, which sum remains due to the plaintiff, less $1,500 paid about the 10th of December, 1890; that on the last-named day, the plaintiff duly notified the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mérrimos, C. J.
after stating the case, proceeded : The mechanic’s lien, as provided and contemplated by the statute {The Code, §§1782, 1784, 1789) is “preferred to every other lien or incumbrance, which attached upon the property subsequent to the time at which the work was commenced, or the materials were furnished.” The same statute (The Code, § 1801) gives “ sub-contractors and laborers who are employed to furnish, or who do furnish, material for the building, repairing or altering any house or other improvement on real estate,” “ a lien on said house and real estate for the amount of such…
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