Weinberg v. Fanning

This appeal stems from a contest between an attaching judgment creditor and a mechanic’s lien holder for money-in the hands of the property owner, 534 Realty Co., Inc. This corporation, owner of premises on Calvert Street, Baltimore, and Katz and Novey, trustees, owners of the adjoining property, agreed that the realty company could build an elevator shaft in part on the trustees’ property and the trustees could use the shaft if their property, then a vacant lot, should be built on. The realty company hired Harold Bereson, trading as Suburban Construction Company, to build the shaft and…