140 Tenn. 67 | Tenn. | 1918
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question to he discussed in this opinion is the lienability of a vacuum cleaning plant installed in the Lyric Theater at Jackson, Tenn., by special contract between complainant and the builders. The vacuum
Counsel for defendants concedes that there would be a lien for the conduits, pipes, and wiring necessary to prepare the building for the use of a vacuum cleaner, but denies the lienability of the other articles of movable property “which might be used in connection with it.”
We consider the question to have been settled in the case of Halley v. Alloway, 10 Lea, 523. In that case it was said, in substance, that the old idea as to fixtures, which was whether the thing was permanently attached and fixed in and to the freehold, has given way in cases of this kind to the nature of the thing done, the character of the house repaired, or constructed, and for which the materials were fur