Copeland Yards v. Taranoff

This is an appeal by plaintiff, J. W. Copeland Yards, from a decree in favor of the defendants Peter L. and Anna Taranoff invalidating a materialmen’s lien against real property owned by the defendants. The other defendants listed in the title of the case are not involved in this appeal.

The suit was instituted to establish and foreclose a lien for building materials supplied to a building contractor for the construction of a dwelling house on the Taranoff’s property. The building materials valued at approximately $4000 were supplied by the plaintiff, a corporation engaged in the business of…