Peckham v. Fox

This is an appeal from a judgment foreclosing a mechanic’s lien. The only objection urged by appellant’s counsel is to the attorney’s fee allowed by the court and made a lien upon the property in question. The points made by the appellant are: First, that section 1195 of the Code of Civil Procedure, providing for such fees, is unconstitutional ; second, that there is no provision in the act making the attorney’s fees a lien upon the property foreclosed. But neither point is tenable.

As to the first, tinder familiar rules of construction, there is nothing in the provisions of section 15 of…