Bordier v. Davis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions to enforce mechanics’ liens, filed in the Police Court of Chelsea on October 20, 1915, against “ Alice H. Davis, James J. Hunnewell, respondents, James J. Hunnewell, debtor.” On appeal to the Superior Court, the petitions Were heard together by Morton, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts.
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Two petitions to enforce mechanics’ liens, filed in the Police Court of Chelsea on October 20, 1915, against “ Alice H. Davis, James J. Hunnewell, respondents, James J. Hunnewell, debtor.” On appeal to the Superior Court, the petitions Were heard together by Morton, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts. The land described in the petitions included all of lot J and nearly half of lot I referred to in the opinion, and half of the building being erected on lot I. The contract of the petitioner Bordier with the respondent Hunnewell was in writing, and provided in substance that…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
These two petitions to enforce mechanics’ liens, R. L. c. 197, were tried together. The respondent Alice H. Davis owned a tract of land in Chelsea, a part of which, on Liberty Street was acquired on May 18, 1915, the description of the part so acquired corresponding with the description in each petition. The remainder of the large tract had been owned by her for several years.
In June, 1915, she made an oral agreement of sale of the entire tract to the respondent Hunnewell, who divided it into ten lots and made a plan which was in evidence at the trial. In September, 1915, the respondent Davis…
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