Hipple v. Canal Boat Fashion

The opinion of the court was delivered at Pittsburg,

by Coulter, J.

It is contended that this court is always mischievously employed when it is engaged in extending secret *41liens. And this was said in ' reference to the common case of mechanics’ lien and the liens of material men, to which this case was much likened in the argument; and there is a strong resemblance and apparent affinity. But that argument all hangs on the word extending. We are not disposed to extend the statute which embraces this or any other object.. Our business is to give it a fair interpretation according' to the rules…