70 So. 660 | Ala. | 1915
This is an appeal taken from a decree of the chancery court overruling demurrer of W. B. Gilbert to a bill filed by the Talladega Hardware Company, a corporation, against R. T. Smith and W. B. Gilbert. The appeal is taken by Gilbert alone.- — -Acts 1911, page 589.
The suit sought to enforce a lien for material furnished by the complainant directly to the owner of the property, R. T. Smith, and used in the building and improvements on the lands described in the bill. It is alleged in the bill that at the time this material was furnished and used in such improvements on said lot, respondent R. T. Smith was its owner, - and that he thereafter conveyed the lot so improved to respondent W. B. Gilbert. It is further alleged that after said materials were furnished and improvements were made on said lot “and within six
The case of Long v. Pocahontas Coal Co., supra, cited by appellant, is not in conflict with the view we have expressed. The contract for the material sold by Long was not made by him with the Pocahontas Coal Company, but with Phillips & Wiggs Machinery Company, through the president of the latter corporation. The fact that the representation was made, that the Pocahontas Coal Company was owned by the Phillips & Wiggs Machinery Company, did not change the fact that Long was furnishing material to Phillips & Wiggs Machinery Company, with which it, or some one for it, improved the properties of the Pocahontas Coal Company. On such state of facts, Long was a material-man, and not an original contractor.
Since this question, presented by the demurrer and insisted on in argument, has been twice decided by this court contrary to appellant’s insistence, it will not be necessary that we discuss the statutes or the decisions of other states. We adhere to the correctness of our former ruling on this point.
The cause is affirmed.
Affirmed.