Downingtown Manufacturing Co. v. Franklin Paper Mills

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The plaintiff in a suit upon a mechanics’ lien claim has brought up the record of a judgment in its favor, by which, however, a lien is obtained for a part only of its claim. The verdict was directed by the Circuit Court, and a bill of exceptions shows that the court was, in effect, requested to leave to the jury the question whether the whole of the plaintiff’s claim did not constitute a single debt for which it might have a lien. The denial of this request is justified if either of two propositions be established — -first, that the…