Phelps Biglow Windmill Co. v. Shay

• Decision Date: 06 May 1891
• Parties: PHELPS BIGLOW WINDMILL CO. v. SHAY.
• Court: Nebraska Supreme Court

32 Neb. 19

48 N.W. 896

PHELPS BIGLOW WINDMILL CO.

v.SHAY.¹

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

May 6, 1891.

Syllabus by the Court.

1. Section 3, c. 54, Comp. St., requires the party who claims a mechanic's lien to make an account in writing of the items of labor, skill, machinery, or material furnished, or either of them, as the case may be, and, after making oath thereto, within four months of the time of performing such labor and skill, or furnishing such machinery or material, file the same in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such labor, skill, and material shall have been furnished,--in other words, in the county where the property benefited is situated. The oath may be taken before a notary public of another state.

2. A windmill, with tank, pump, etc., constitutes an appurtenance within the meaning of section 1, c. 54, Comp. St., and the party furnishing and erecting the same under a contract with the owner of the land may obtain a mechanic's lien by filing the necessary claim, duly verified, in the proper office.

3. The homestead is subject to sale on a mechanic's lien duly obtained.

Appeal from district court, Johnson county; BROADY, Judge.L. C. Chapman, for appellant.

Chamberlain Bros. & Rood and Jones & Jones, for appellee.

MAXWELL, J.

This action was brought in the district court of Johnson county to foreclose a mechanic's lien. The items for which the lien was claimed are as follows:

+-----------------------------------------+
                ¦1 10-ft. I. X. L. windmill       ¦$ 85 00¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 figure 410 pumps and brass cyl ¦26 00  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 round tank 4 2/3x2             ¦12 00  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 house tank                     ¦9 00   ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 milk tank 8x23x23              ¦16 00  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦26 ft. 1/4 galvanized pipe & rods¦11 70  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦191 ft. 3/4 galvanized pipe      ¦38 20  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦192 ft. 1 black pipe             ¦28 80  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 brass check-valve              ¦1 55   ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 brass screw-lock               ¦1 40   ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦1 derrick                        ¦30 00  ¦
                +---------------------------------+-------¦
                ¦                                 ¦$259 65¦
                +-----------------------------------------+
                

Two notes for $129.83 each were given for this amount; the first due December 1, 1888, and the second September 11, 1889. A mechanic's lien was filed in the proper office in Johnson county. This was sworn to before a notary public in Jackson county, Mo., and it is now objected that the oath is invalid, and therefore that no lien attaches by reason thereof. Section 3, c. 54, Comp. St., requires a party who claims a lien to make an account in writing of the items of labor, skill, machinery, or...