Marbut-Williams Lumber Co. v. Dixie Electric Co.

1. “The Civil Code, § 3352, provides for liens for ‘all contractors, materialmen, and persons furnishing material for the improvement of real estate.’ The liens so specified are created by the same statute, are of the same character, and governed by the same principles of law. . . When a contractor or materialman has done work or furnished material for the improvement of real estate, their liens when declared and created, as provided in the Civil Code (1910), § 3353, attach from the time the work under the contract is commenced or the material is furnished, as against third persons having…