Bank of Charleston v. Curtiss
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Tins was a bill in chancery, brought by Charles D. Cur-tiss against Frederick H. Stow, Robert R. Fairchild and the Bank of Charleston, to perfect the lien of the plaintiff on a certain dwelling-house and barn in the town of Stratford, which he 'had erected, and on which, with the land whereon they stood, he claimed a lien, by virtue of the act of 183(5, entitled “ An act securing to mechanics a lien upon land and buildings,” and the act of 183S, in addition thereto.
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Tins was a bill in chancery, brought by Charles D. Cur-tiss against Frederick H. Stow, Robert R. Fairchild and the Bank of Charleston, to perfect the lien of the plaintiff on a certain dwelling-house and barn in the town of Stratford, which he 'had erected, and on which, with the land whereon they stood, he claimed a lien, by virtue of the act of 183(5, entitled “ An act securing to mechanics a lien upon land and buildings,” and the act of 183S, in addition thereto. The plaintiff Is a mechanic, using the trade and occupation of house carpenter. On the Í5th oí' September 1842, he contracted…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
The plaintiff is a mechanic, a builder, who, by this bill in equity, attempts to enforce a lien, which he claims to have, upon the buildings and land described in his bill, according to the provisions of our statute of 1836, entitled “ An Act securing to mechanics a lien on land and buildings,” — and extended, by an additional act of 1838,
This lien, as he claims, accrued, by reason of work and labour performed and materials furnished by him, in the erection of a dwelling-house, barn, &c. upon a building-lot of about one acre of ground, situated in the village of Stratford, as he…
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