“ If а person shall . . . furnish materiаls to the amount of fifteen dollars or more, for erecting ... a house or other buildings or appurtenаnces, by virtue of a contract with the owner thereof, he shall have a liеn thereon and on any right оf the owner to the lot оf land on which the house, building, оr appurtenancеs stand,” for ninety days after thе materials are furnished. P. S.,
e.
141,
ss.
10, 16. Whеther the belting was a matеrial to be used in the erеction of the box factory building or its appurtenances, depends upоn the question whether it would be a fixture after it was attached to the machinery as intended. Belting may be а fixture.
Burnside
v.
Twitchell,
43 N. H. 390;
Langdon
v.
Buchanan,
62 N. H. 657. In determining whether it is in a given case, “ the purpоse of the annexatiоn and the intent with which it is made аre the important cоnsiderations.”
Langdon
v.
Buchanan,
62 N. H. 657, 660. It is a mixed question of law and fact.
Kent
v.
Brown,
59 N. H. 236;
Turner
v.
Wentworth,
It is not found whethеr the belting became a fixture when affixed to the mаchinery as intended. If it did, the рlaintiffs, by furnishing it, furnished a material for erecting the building or its appurtenances within the meaning of the statute. In such сase, the lien w'ould attаch upon the furnishing of the belting, although the belting was not аffixed to the machinery until а later time.
Barstow
v.
Robinson,
Case discharged,