City of Crawfordsville v. Johnson

This was a suit by the appellees against the appellant, to enforce the lien of sub-contractors under the mechanic’s lien law. There are but two questions in the case:

1. Can a sub-contractor secure a lien on the building and ground on which it is erected, by filing the proper notice, within the legal time, but after the owner has fully paid the contractor all that was due to him on the contract? In the thoroughly and fully considered case of Colter v. Frese, 45 Ind. 96, this question was ruled in the affirmative, and we adhere to that ruling.

2. "Was the notice' given sufficiently definite and…