Bixby v. Whitcomb

46 A. 1049, 69 N.H. 646

• Court: Supreme Court of New Hampshire
• Decided: June 5, 1899
• Status: Published

Opinion

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.