Deets v. Freed

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

This is an appeal by a sub-contractor (plaintiff) from a judgment in favor of the owner (defendant) on a scire facias sur mechanic’s lien.

The facts being .undisputed, the parties submitted the case to the court below on the question whether the sub-contractor was barred as a matter of law from filing an enforcible claim because of a no-lien contract between the owner and the principal contractor. The court decided the legal question in favor of the owner, and the sub-contractor took this appeal.

Section 15 of the Mechanic’s Lien Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 431, as amended by…