Parker v. Tout

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring a mechanic’s lien in favor of plaintiffs to be prior in right to the mortgage lien of the defendant bank upon real property situated in Glenn County, California, and owned by the defendants Tout.

The facts in the case are not disputed. The defendant bank was the owner and holder of a note for $25,000, secured by a deed of trust upon this real property, which deed of trust was recorded June 17, 1922, and was a valid and subsisting first lien of record at the time the plaintiffs commenced the working of digging a well upon the property, which work is…