Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami v. George Construction Corp.

HORTON, Judge.

Appellant, defendant below, seeks review of an adverse final decree establishing a mechanic’s lien in favor of the appellee and foreclosing said lien against appellant’s real property.

Appellee is a Florida corporation engaged in the construction business. Its president, George Vizenthal, is a licensed contractor. Appellant’s president is Sherman J. Tobin. During the latter part of 1959, Tobin and Vizenthal entered into an oral agreement by the terms of which appellee was to be employed as general contractor to supervise construction of the shell of appellant’s new bottling plant…