Case ID: cal-app_37/html/0087-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BEASLY, J., pro tem.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[Civ. No. 2224.
    First Appellate District.
    April 29, 1918.]
    CRANE COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent, v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant.
    Mechanics' Liens—Becovery on Statutory Bond—Filinq oe Lien Essential.—Under the mechanic's lien law, only those persons who have filed their claims of lien are entitled- to recover upon the statutory bond furnished pursuant to section 1183 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
    APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. J. M. Seawell, Judge.
    The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
    John Ralph Wilson, and Charles B. Morris, for Appellant.
    Milton Newmark, for Respondent.
    A. A. Moore, Stanley Moore, and L. R. Weinmann, as Amici Curiae.
    
   BEASLY, J., pro tem.

The defendant, Maryland Casualty Company, appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff upon a statutory bond furnished pursuant to section 1183 of the Code of Civil Procedure by the defendant to the owner of the building that was being erected by Siebert & Company, as contractors, and for which the plaintiff, Crane & Company, furnished materials.

The sole question in the ease is whether or not it was a condition precedent to the recovery by the respondents in this action against appellants upon their bond that the respondent file a claim of lien pursuant to the provisions of the mechanic’s lien law. The trial court decided this question in the negative, and in accordance with this answer gave judgment for plaintiff, although plaintiff had filed no such claim. The answer given by the trial court to the question was incorrect and the judgment must, therefore, be reversed, and it is so ordered.

(Hubbard v. Jurian, 35 Cal. App. 757, [170 Pac. 1093].)

Lennon, P. J., and Kerrigan, J., concurred.