Frazer v. Barlow

Appeal from a judgment upon demurrer entered after plaintiff had declined to amend.his complaint.

The action was against three defendants—: Barlow, Cronkite, and Ellis—to foreclose a mechanic’s lien for a balance due for lumber and materials furnished and used in the construction of a dwelling-house on a lot of land in the city of Sacramento.

The notice of lien was included in and made part of the complaint. The notice contains the statements that Cronkite and Ellis were the reputed owners of the land upon which the house was builded; that the materials which were used in its construction were…