Buchannan v. Cole
Buchannan v. Cole
Opinion of the Court
This is the second appeal in this case. Buchannan v. Cole, 57 Mo. App. 11. A brief restatement of the salient facts only is necessary. The Davie Mining and Development Company, a defendant here, had a mining contract with the Kentucky Mining Company for getting mineral from mining lots numbers 116, 117, 124, and 125. Under an agreement with the Davie Mining Company the defendant Cole erected on the premises what is denominated as a ‘ 'gravity plant, ” which consisted of a building in which was certain machinery used for hoisting and separating lead and zinc ores. In the erection of this building, and in placing and fitting the machinery into it, the plaintiff performed certain work. Cole having failed to pay him, he filed a mechanic’s lien on the building and machinery. The present action is to obtain judgment against Cole for the debt, and to enforce the lien. Cole had given the appellant bank a mortgage on the machinery, and it was, therefore, made a party defendant. We held on the former appeal that the Davie Mining Company had a leasehold interest in the land, and that the various articles of machinery in the building were fixtures and that the entire property was subject to the plaintiff’s lien. The judgment of the circuit court, which was against the plaintiff as to the lien, was reversed and the cause remanded. The case was retried, and by consent of parties was submitted to the court without a jury upon the same testimony taken at the first trial. There was a judgment against Cole for the debt and subjecting the alleged leasehold interest, building and machinery, to its payment. From that judgment the appellant bank alone has appealed.
The case having been retried on the same evidence,
The supreme court also held that the contract of' the Davie Mining Company with the Kentucky Mining-Company was not a lease, but only a license to dig-mineral. Under this ruling the judgment of the circuit-court enforcing plaintiff’s lien as to the building and the alleged leasehold is likewise erroneous. However,, as the only appellant here is in nowise interested in the building or the land, the judgment as to the build
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