Hopkins v. Conrad & Lancaster
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, in a Scire Facias upon a claim filed by the defendants in error, under the mechanics’ lien law.
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Writ of error to the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, in a Scire Facias upon a claim filed by the defendants in error, under the mechanics’ lien law. The case was this: — - On the 1st of July, 1819, Conrad and Lancaster filed in the office of the prothonotary of the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, a claim in the following words, viz.— liConrad and Lancaster claim, in their own right, the sum of three hundred and forty-five dollars and thirty-four cents against Jlarher and Thorn, the . owners, or reputed owners of a three storied brick house,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
— In order to understand this cause, and the reasons of our opinion, we must attend to dates as well as facts. Harker and Thorn were erecting a house in Walnut street in the year 1818. They got lumber from Conrad and Lancaster for this house, and the first charge is on the 23d of June, 1818. On the 11th of July, 1818, the price of the lumber delivered was less than one hundred dollars. On the 11th of July, 1818, Moses L,ancaster assigned to Harker and Thorn a note, signed by Conrad and Lancaster, and dated the 18th of March, 1818, for one…
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