Legal Opinion
Smith v. Colloty
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 20, 1903PublishedCited by 12 opinions
On error to the Atlantic Circuit-Court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pitney, J.
This is an action upon a mechanics5 lien claim. The defendants are Eugene M. Colloty, as builder, and Mary Colloty, as owner. The declaration sets up an indebtedness due from the builder to the plaintiff, and concludes with an averment that the debt is a lien upon the building and lands in question by virtue of the Mechanics5 Lien act of 1874. That act was repealed in 3898 (Pamph. L., p. 553), long prior to the transactions that gave rise to,.this suit. But as the statutory provisions on which the lien was rested were reenacted in the revised…
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