Brunner v. Marks
Brunner v. Marks
Opinion of the Court
— In this action judgment was rendered foreclosing certain mechanics’ liens, and the appeal is prosecuted Ivom that judgment and the order of the court denying a new trial. Various liens were filed against the property by different mechanics, and actions brought thereon, which were subsequently consolidated under an order of the court. Appellants were the owners of a lot in the city of Ukiali, described as being sixty-six feet front upon State Street, with a depth of eighty-six feet upon Perkins Street. There was a building situated upon this lot covering a frontage of forty-eight feet at the time the contract was entered into with one Ludwig, upon which this action arose. The contract, as stated by Ludwig, was to build a one-story brick building, and to extend to two stories an old brick building. The old building here referred to is the building covering forty-eight feet of said lot, the one-story building to be erected covering the remaining eighteen feet of the lot. The contract price was eight thousand dollars for the entire work, and one contract covered it all.
Appellant relied upon twenty-nine assignments of errors of law, but states his principal one to.be that all the liens but one were filed against that part of the structure situated upon the lot described as having a frontage of forty-eight feet, the remaining lien being filed against that portion of the building not
The fact that the liens described the building as situated upon forty-eight feet of the lot, and the complaint described the building as situated upon the entire lot, causes no variance and is entirely immaterial. The description of the land upon which the structure is erected, required to be set out in the claim of lien, is not a technical description, and is demanded only for the purposes of identification, although in this case it appears that the description in these liens was technically correct.
Having disposed of appellants’ principal point, we will not notice the little ones in detail, but simply say that after a due consideration of them, we think them too small to justify a reversal of the case.
For the foregoing reasons let the judgment and order be affirmed.
Harrison, J., and Paterson, J., concurred.
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- F. BRUNNER, Sr. v. A. MARKS
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- Mechanics’ Liens—Lien upon Paet of Building—Remodeling of Building upon Past of Lot—New Building.—The rule that a lien cannot be claimed upon part of a building does not apply where liens are claimed for labor and mateiials furnished in the improvement and construction of additions to a building upon part of a lot, though the contract included the erection of another new building upon another part of the same lot,, upon which other liens are claimed. In__Fobeclosube—Description of Lot—Admissions of Pleadings—Evidence. —Where the complaint upon foreclosure of the liens upon the remodeled building describes it as situated upon the entire lot, and its allegation in that respecte is not denied, no issue is raised as to whether or not the lien covers an entire building or only a part thereof, and the defendant cannot introduce evidence against his admission. Id.—Immaterial, Variance between Claims of Lien and Complaint. — In such case, the fact that the claims of lien described the building remodeled as situated upon forty-eight feet of the lot, and the complaint described the building as situated upon the entire lot, causes no material variance. Id.—Description in Claim of Lien—Identification.—The description of the land upon which a structure is erected, required to he set out in a claim of lien thereon, is not a technical description, and is demanded only for the purpose of identification.