Roxbury Painting & Decorating Co. v. Nute
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on July 13, 1914, in the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District under R. L. c. 197 by the Roxbury Painting and Decorating Company, a corporation, for the establishment of a mechanic’s lien upon property owned by the respondents Marietta Ñute and Harriet E. Young as tenants in common.
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Petition, filed on July 13, 1914, in the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District under R. L. c. 197 by the Roxbury Painting and Decorating Company, a corporation, for the establishment of a mechanic’s lien upon property owned by the respondents Marietta Ñute and Harriet E. Young as tenants in common. Samuel C. Hathaway, who had agreed in writing to purchase the property and had made contracts with the petitioner for the work and material for which the lien was claimed, also was joined as a respondent. Two other contractors, Joseph A. Duff and Leslie S. Lewis, who made claims under similar…
1Opinion of the Court
Carroll, J.. The petitioners seek to establish a lien for labor performed and materials furnished in the repair and alteration of a building on land owned by the respondents Mrs. Young and Miss Nute (hereinafter called the owners), as tenants in common. The work was performed under contracts of the respondent Hathaway with the petitioners. Hathaway made no appearance; his deposition was taken on interrogatories propounded by the petitioners and cross interrogatories of the owners. In the Superior Court a verdict was ordered for the owners.
It was not denied that on March 25,1914, the owners,…
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