Title Guarantee Co. v. Wrenn
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah : Heney E. McGinn, Judge. This suit was originally brought by Inman, Poulsen 6 Co. to foreclose a lien for material furnished by them, and used in the construction of certain buildings on lots 7 and 8 in block 135, Caruthers’ Addition to the City of Portland.
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From Multnomah : Heney E. McGinn, Judge. This suit was originally brought by Inman, Poulsen 6 Co. to foreclose a lien for material furnished by them, and used in the construction of certain buildings on lots 7 and 8 in block 135, Caruthers’ Addition to the City of Portland. Other claimants, who were made parties defendant, filed answers, settingup their alleged liens, and thereafter, and pending the final determination of the suit, the liens of the original plaintiffs and of all the defendants except the respondents Jackson and others were assigned and transferred to the present plaintiff,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. The defendant Pattullo challenges the validity of all the mechanics’ liens involved in this suit on the grounds: (1) That section 3672 of the code, under which it is sought to sustain such liens as against him, is unconstitutional and void ; (2) that this section, when properly construed, is intended as a provision by which *67property owners otherwise liable to pay mechanics’ liens might relieve themselves from such liability, and, therefore, has no application to a case of this character; and (3) that the evidence fails to show that the buildings in question were constructed with the…
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