Real Estate Investment Co. v. Haseltine

— It is often very difficult to make practical application in the trial'of causes of propositions of law which are seemingly simple. That this is eminently the case in ultimately determining priorities between incumbrancers by deed, and incumbrancers by mechanics’ liens, the cases collected and discussed in Phillips on Mechanics’ Liens, sections 226, 242, amply ■demonstrate. Unfortunately, cases of this character •depend almost exclusively on statutory provisions, and, as the statutes on this subject of no two states are -exactly alike, decisions in other states- furnish little light for our…