Case ID: mo_9/html/0554-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Napton, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STINE vs. AUSTIN.
    When there is a r.inning account of articles furnished hy a mechanic, for a'biiildii'.'í, if i'ie last item be furnished within six months of the commencement of the suit, he is entitled to recover on the whole account.
    APPEAL from St. Louis Circuit Court.
   Napton, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a scire facias on a mechanic’s lien for lumber furnished in building a house. The lien was filed on the 22d April, 1841; the last item of the account filed is the 23d Oct., 1840; and the defendant insisted before the circuit court that the plaintiff was only entitled to recover for so much of the account as had accrued within six months previous to the filing of the lien. The court being of a different opinion, a verdict was had against Stine, and a judgment thereon, to reverse which he has appealed to this court.

The account in this case, was a running account, and constituted but one entire demand, which accrued only when the last item was furnished; the lien having been filed within six months from the time the last item was furnished, was filed in time.

The judgment of the circuit court must be affirmed.