Case Name: THE SAGINAW BAY COMPANY, a partnership, v. HENRY ENGLE et al.
Court: Ohio Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1899-10
Citations: 19 Ohio C.C. 632
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE SAGINAW BAY COMPANY, a partnership, v. HENRY ENGLE et al.
Judges: Before Caldwell, Hale and Marvin, JJ.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the circuit courts of Ohio
Volume: 19
Pages: 632–632

Head Matter:
(Eighth Circuit — Cuyahoga Co., O., Cir’t Court,
Oct. Term, 1899.)
Before Caldwell, Hale and Marvin, JJ.
THE SAGINAW BAY COMPANY, a partnership, v. HENRY ENGLE et al.
Mechanics Lien Law — Sub contractor’s lien — Statute construed—
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga ccunty.
E. J. Bart, for Plaintiff.
Smith & Blake, for Defendant.

Opinion:
Caldwell, J.
The section of the Mechanics' Lien Law as it refers to priority among sub-contractors and material men, means this; When a. sub-contractor or material man flies his lien, he gets a lien on all then due or becoming due within ten days thereafter from the owner to the contractor, and he is to pro rate with all who come in within the ten days. After the ten days, the funds due before are to be regarded as appropriated to the extent of the liens filed before the ten days were up. Liens filed after the ten days, become liens only on funds due after the ten days and on any balance after the liens filed before the ten days are satisfied out of the funds due before the ten days.
There was no such change made in the contract between- the owner and the contractor as would affect the rights of lien holders. The plaintiff is entitled to the priority it claims.