160 Wis. 641 | Wis. | 1915
Tbe trial court found that tbe material furnished by tbe Tawlcey-Crowley Lumber Company and used by tbe Construction Company for form boxes is not lienable because it was not incorporated into the building; that tbe boxes were removed and remain fit for use for construction of other buildings. Tbe evidence sustains this finding of fact. It is claimed by tbe owners of tbe building that tbe I/umber Company forfeited their right to any lien on their property because they knowingly included tbe material used for these form boxes in their claim for lien as material used in tbe construction of tbe building. This contention must fail for tbe reasons (1) that tbe material for form boxes was fully paid for by tbe Construction Company on January 23, 1913, and (2) it does not appear that tbe Lumber Company knowingly made any claim for such material in their notice of claim for lien. It is without dispute in tbe evidence that tbe payment of $800 to tbe Lumber Company on January 23d constituted in fact full payment of all that was then due for material furnished by tbe Lumber Company under its contract. Tbe omission of tbe Lumber Company to enter it on its books as a full discharge of its account to date against tbe Construction Company does not prevent this result. Tbe fact is, it was a payment of its claim and should be so regarded under tbe facts and circumstances of tbe .case. There is no difficulty in separating this portion of tbe account from tbe charges for material thereafter furnished, and the statement of account attached to the notice of claim for lien is in no way open to tbe objection that lienable and nonlienable items of material as included in tbe account cannot be ascertained and separated. Tbe circuit court properly held “that it is pos
The court found as a fact that the American Cement Plaster Company knowingly and intentionally included in its claim
By the Gourt. — That part of the judgment from which Margaret E. Mahoney, Josephine S. Mahoney, and Equitable Surety Company appealed is affirmed, and that part from which the American Cement Plaster Company appealed is reversed, and the cause remanded with directions to award the American Cement Plaster Company a lien on the premises involved in the action and the right of this company to join in the foreclosure and sale of such premises as the judgment awards to other lienors.