Buntyn v. Shippers' Compress Co.
Buntyn v. Shippers' Compress Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The title acquired by Solomon by his purchase at the sale under the execution in favor of McMillan and Williams & Briggs was with the burden of the lien in favor of the appellant, whose suit to enforce his lien was pending when the suit of McMillan et al. was instituted. As the appellant was not a party to the latter suit, he was not affected by the judgment and sale under it. The law requires all persons claiming liens on the same property to be made parties to a suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien, and- any lienor not thus made a party is unaffected by proceedings in a cause to which he is a stranger.
The second plea of Solomon avers that he acquired title under a sale by virtue of the power in a deed of trust executed January 27, 1883, by the then owners of the property sought to be subjected to the lien of the appellant, and that the Shippers’ Compress Company, by virtue of a contract with which the lien is asserted, never had any title to said property. This is not an answer to the demand of the plaintiff for the enforcement of a lien on the materials furnished by him, and any structure made by his materials and labor. It is impossible that the grantors in the deed of trust, under which Solomon claims title by this plea, should have been the owners of the bricks and other materials furnished by the plaintiff, and the structure made by him as against his lien, asserted by the suit he then had pending.
The other objection to the certificate is untenable. It shows the certifier to be a justice of the peace and notary public. He had the right to take and certify acknowledgments in his character of justice of the peace, and the description of himself as a notary public and his notarial seal may be rejected.
Without passing specifically on the several rulings of the court below, we have announced our views on the questions litigated between the parties, and reverse the judgment, and remand the case for a new trial.
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- J. M. Buntyn v. Shippers' Compress Co.
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- 1. Mechanic’s Lien. Suit to enforce. Parties to action. In a suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien, all persons claiming liens on the property sought to be subjected must be made parties. And if another suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien on the same property be already pending, and the petitioner in such first suit be not made a party defendant in the second suit, then his rights are unaffected by a sale under a judgment obtained in the latter suit. 2. Same. Subsequent incumbrance. Conflict of claims. In a suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien on a structure, for materials furnished therefor and work done thereon, it is no answer to the petition for the defendant to say that he has acquired a title to the property sought to be subjected by virtue of a sale under a deed of trust executed by the owners of the property since the institution of the suit. 3. Same. Right to enforce subject to paramount lien. Where A has a prior lien on property under a deed of trust and B has a mechanic’s lien on the same property B is entitled to enforce his lien by a sale of the property, subject to the paramount lien of A. 4. Deed. Certificate of acknowledgment. What to contain. A certificate of acknowledgment to a deed which fails to show that the grantor acknowledges that he “delivered” it, is not such a certificate as will entitle the instrument to be recorded, and therefore the deed does not affect third persons having no actual notice of its existence. 5. Same. Acknowledgment. Description of officer. Surplusage. Where a certificate of acknowledgment to a deed shows that the officer who made it was both a justice of the peace and a notary public, the description of him in the latter capacity may be rejected as surplusage, if at the time of taking the acknowledgment he was authorized to do so as a justice of the peace and not as a notary public.