Thomas v. Owens

The lower court plaintiff, Walter Owens, brought an action in the district court of Lincoln county to establish and foreclose a mechanics’ and materialmen’s lien against a preference right school land lease and improvements owned by E. L. Thomas,’ lower court defendant. Bill Story, defendant in the lower court, was an alleged tenant of the defendant E. L. Thomas. The case, as one of equitable cognizance, was tried to the court without a jury. Findings of fact and con- elusions of law, in writing, were made by the court in accord with a motion made into the record, at the beginning of the…