Wells v. Canton Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the court of chancery. The appellants, Wells and Miller, machinists, put up certain machines in the adamantine candle factory of Hancock and Mann, between the 7th of April and 18th of June 1846. These machines consisted principally of four presses and heaters, essential to the business of the factory.
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Appeal from the court of chancery. The appellants, Wells and Miller, machinists, put up certain machines in the adamantine candle factory of Hancock and Mann, between the 7th of April and 18th of June 1846. These machines consisted principally of four presses and heaters, essential to the business of the factory. On the 21st of August 1846, they filed in Baltimore county court their claim, to the amount of $815.37^, for lien, under the mechanics lien laws, against said machines, and on the same day caused a scire facias to be issued thereon. This claim was afterwards, on the 26th of March…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
Under the decree in the case of Samuel Jones, Jr., against R. B. Hancock and Thos. W. Mann, et al., the trustee sold the factory of Hancock and Mann, known as their Adamantine Candle Factory, for the sum of $20,500, on the 15th of February 1847. The sale included the lot, buildings, and the machinery in and about the premises, and was finally ratified on the 14th of June 1847. The claims on which the decree was passed consisted of three mortgages, given by Plan-cock and Mann to Dawson and Norwood, which afterwards passed into the hands of Samuel' Jones, Jr. The first was dated and…
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