126 Mo. App. 254 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1907
(after stating the facts). — Under the provisions of section 4205, Revised Statutes 1899, a mechanic’s lien attaches “to the buildings, erections or improvements for which they (the materials were furnished or the work was done, in preference to any prior lien or encumbrance or mortgage upon the land upon which said buildings, erection, improvements or machinery have been erected or put,” etc. The section further provides that “any person enforcing such lien may have such building,” etc., “sold under execution, and the purchaser may remove the same within a reasonable time thereafter.”
In Seidel v. Cornwell, 166 Mo. 51, 65 S. W. 971, and Schulenburg v. Hayden, 146 Mo. 583, 48 S. W. 472, it was held that the purchaser of the building or improvement at a sheriff’s sale under a judgment rendered under and in. pursuance of the provisions of the above section, may maintain replevin for the improvement if the defendant refused to permit him to remove it. In Schulenburg v. Hayden, supra, the Supreme Court, through Marshall, J., after reviewing the cases wherein the Supreme Court had construed the mechanic’s lien law of the State, at p. 594, said:
“The true construction to put on section 6707, Revised Statutes 1889 (now section 4205, R. S. 1899), is that if there is a mortgage on the land and a contractor,*259 under contract with the owner of the equity of redemption, builds, a new house upon the land, he has a mechanic’s lien against the house, and the house may be sold, and may be removed from the land by the purchaser, for this preserves to the mortgagee all the security he formerly had, and secures, as far as possible, the, payment to the contractor for the work and materials he employed in building the house.
This is all that section 6707 means or guarantees. This is made perfectly clear in the light of section 6706, which- confines the mechanic’s lien to the right, title and interest of the owner, and it is in harmony with the adjudications, and with the first principles of law and justice.”
Section 4211, Revised Statutes 1899, provides: “In all suits under this article the parties to the contract shall, and all other persons interested in the matter in controversy or in the property charged with the lien may be made parties, but such as are not made parties shall not be bound by any such proceedings.”
Real Estate Investment Company v. Haseltine, 53 Mo. App. 308, was a suit in trespass for moving a house off lot 6, Boulevard Addition to the city of Springfield, by the defendant, who offered to justify by showing he had purchased the house under a judgment foreclosing a mechanic’s lien thereon. His offer was rejected by the circuit court. On appeal this ruling was held error by Judges Rombauer and Bond in separate opinions. The case was certified to the Supreme Court but for some reason not known to us never reached that court, or if it did was never determined by said court. The underlying facts of the case are that, on June 8,1889, the then owner of the lot executed a deed of trust thereon which was foreclosed May 6, 1890, the plaintiff being the purchaser at the foreclosure sale. On June 13, 1889, the owner of the lot began the erection of a house on the lot. Luther Juckett established a
We think the ruling of the learned circuit judge is correct, and affirm the judgment.