14 Colo. App. 240 | Colo. Ct. App. | 1900
There is a necessity to determine but one proposition to dispose of this appeal. The decision has been postponed to await an adjudication by the supreme court. It has been announced and we shall simply follow it without further analysis or discussion. We find within the limits of the amended abstract sufficient material to enable us to apply the law.
Having disposed of this preliminary question, which is the principal basis of the defendant in error’s argument, we come to the substantial controversy.
According to the complaint the Little Valeria Gold Mining and Milling Company owned a mining claim in the Cripple Creek district. In 1895 it leased the property to McFeety who subleased to the Cardinal Gold Mining Company. While this lease was in force the Cardinal Gold Mining Company was in undisputed possession of the entire claim. During the term, and in accordance with its provisions, this company employed the various parties whose claims were set up to work as miners at an agreed price, and they worked for a certain specified number of days. Their claims were not paid and on the 11th of April they filed with the recorder a statement of their claim for work and labor, setting up as we assume a mechanic’s lien valid in form and probably legal in substance, except as against the Little Valeria Gold Mining and Milling Company. The defendants took issue and when the case came on for trial a motion for judgment on the pleadings was put in by the Little Valeria Mining and Milling Company, denied by the court, which afterwards rendered judgment and entered a decree giving the plaintiff and his assignors a lien on the property of the Little Valeria Gold Mining and Milling Company as well as a personal judgment against sundry of the parties. The property was ordered sold and the Little Valeria Mining and Milling Company prosecutes this error.
This statement is sufficient to bring the case fully and
For these reasons the judgment entered will be reversed and the cause sent back for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion.
Reversed.