Duncan v. Bateman

delivered the opinion of .the court.

“All artisans, builders and mechanics of every description, who shall perform any work and labor on any building, edifice, or tenement, . ' . shall have an absolute lien on such building, edifice, or tenement, for such work and labor, as well as for materials furnished by them, in and about such work and labor,” Gould’s Dig., ch. 112, sec. 1.

The question is presented whether a man who sells lumber for building a house is entitled to the lien provided for in the foregoing statute.

A lumber man is not an artisan, a builder, or a mechanic, and to no other does…