Mills v. Terry Manufacturing Co.

W. A. Henderson, Sp. J.

This ease involves the construction of the mechanics’ lien law, to the end that it may be determined whether the plain tills have a lien upon the house and lot of the defendant, John „ T. Frost, situate in the city of Memphis. The plaintiffs were adjudged to be not so entitled in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, and they have brought their case to this Court by appeal in error.

It appears -that the plaintiffs are wholesale merchants, who, in Cincinnati, Ohio, carry on the general business of"selling building supplies, such as doors, blinds, etc., to contractors in…