46 Ga. 112 | Ga. | 1872
The only error assigned to the judgment of the Court below is the granting a new trial. Although the testimony of Printup, as to the contents of the written contract, was improperly admitted, still, in our judgment, the verdict was right, under the evidence and the law applicable thereto, independent of Printup’s testimony. The laborer or mechanic who does the worlc for his employer, and furnishes the materials, is the person who is entitled to the lien upon the property of his employer, under the provisions of the Act of 1869, and then he is not entitled to a lien on any greater interest in that property than his employer had in it at the time the work was done thereon; his lien is upon the property of his employer for the labor done and materials furnished, under the provisions of the Act. The property levied on to
Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed.