Supreme Court of New Hampshire, 1899

Bixby v. Whitcomb

Bixby v. Whitcomb
Supreme Court of New Hampshire · Decided June 5, 1899 · Parsons, Peaslee
46 A. 1049; 69 N.H. 646

Bixby v. Whitcomb

Opinion of the Court

Parsons, J.

The defendants’ workmen, performing labor upon the trustee’s house for the contractor, acquired no lien thereon for services performed prior to notice to her of an intention to claim such lien. P. S., c. 141, s. 13; Eastman v. Newman, 59 N. H. 581. As the payments on their orders were made from funds belonging to the defendants, this would authorize a finding that the trustee had in her hands money due the defendants upon which the workmen to whom it was paid had mo. legal claim, and therefore the trustee was properly charged'.

Kxception overruled,,

Peaslee, J., did not sit: the others concurred.

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