Chancellor v. Melvin

This is a controversy between materialmen and laborers, and the owner of a building constructed for him by a contractor. The former parties assert statutory liens on money owed the contractor by the owner. The principal problem is to determine the amount of the owner's unpaid balance on the construction contract.

Several weeks prior to October 1, 1948, appellee, cross-appellant and defendant below, Leonard B. Melvin, and M.C. Parker, a contractor, also a defendant below, had been negotiating for the construction by Parker of a small apartment house for Melvin on a lot owned by Melvin in the…