Raleigh Hardware Co. v. Williams

Maxwell, Judge:

Julius Williams having departed this life subsequent to the institution of the first above styled suit for the enforcement of a mechanic’s lien, the second suit, for the ascertainment of the indebtedness of the decedent and to subject his real estate to the satisfaction thereof, was instituted. The two suits were consolidated.

A year or two before his death the decedent erected a hotel on a lot owned by him in the city of Beckley. This property was covered by a deed of trust executed by Williams and wife to secure the Lincoln Finance Company, a corporation, in the payment of…