De Wald v. Woog

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
De Wald v. Woog, 158 Pa. 497 (Pa. 1893)
27 A. 1088; 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1622
Dean, McCollum, Mitchell, Pee, Thompson, Williams

De Wald v. Woog

Opinion of the Court

Pee Curiam,

The right of the appellants to share in the fund for distribution depends upon a single question. They were contractors and builders. Under a contract with Woog, who held a lease for ten years of two adjoining buildings used by him as a restaurant and tobacco store, they had made extensive improvements and repairs upon the buildings. His leasehold interest was sold at sheriff’s sale by the plaintiffs, De Wald, Wuesthoff & Co., and the appellants claimed payment for their work and materials out of the fund, as mechanics and material men entitled to a lien upon the premises. Their right to share in the fund was denied on the ground that their work was done and materials furnished for the repair of a building or buildings which were in the actual occupancy of Woog during the whole time their work was being done. This raised a question on which the parties were heard by the auditor and the court below. Upon this question the finding was adverse to the claimant. We are not persuaded by the evidence that this finding was plain error, and upon it the judgment or decree appealed from must be affirmed.

Decree affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
De Wald v. Woog. Murphy's Appeal
Cited By
4 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Mechanic's Lien — Alterations and repairs — Evidence. A mechanic’s lion cannot be siistained as for work done on a new building, where it appears that the work for which the lien is claimed was done on two adjoining four story buildings each twenty feet wide, that the building was occupied as a restaurant during the whole progress of the work, that the first story front was changed, but that the front of the second, third and fourth stories remained unchanged, although the interior of the buildings was entirely remodeled and the back buildings extended.