Brabazon v. Allen
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill to foreclose a builders’ lien; brought to the City Court of the city of Hartford. The facts were found and a decree passed for the petitioner, and certain of the respondents who were later incumbrancers brought the record before this court by a motion in error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. Two other cases against the same respondents and founded upon, similar liens, were heard at the same time with this, the facts being the same in all.
1Opinion of the Court
Foster, J.. This case, and the subsequent ones of Pratt and Scoville against the same defendants, are bills in equity-brought to foreclose mechanics’ liens. The court below found the facts set forth in the bills to be true, and passed a decree in favor of the plaintiff in each case respectively. By a motion in error, each case is now brought before this court, and as they depend substantially upon the same principles, they are submitted together.
It appears that the principal defendants, Allen and Andrews, were the owners of a lot of land; that they made a contract for the erection upon it of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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