Grapette Co. v. Bowden

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is a controversy over the priority of liens. The question is whether a mechanic’s lien is superior to the lien of a certain deed of trust. The judgment appealed from gave priority to the mechanic’s lien.

In January, 1946, L. R. Bowden made a contract with the Ibis Manufacturing Co., now bankrupt, for the laying of a cement foundation, and the placing of permanent metal screws and bolts therein, for the holding of a prefabricated metal house that was to be removed from another part of the county and attached to the cement foundation on the bankrupt’s property in…