Case Name: Mediterranean Corporation, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Spirros Pappas, a single man, Edgar L. Nash, et al., Appellees
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1933-02-23
Citations: 107 Fla. 876
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mediterranean Corporation, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Spirros Pappas, a single man, Edgar L. Nash, et al., Appellees.
Judges: Whitfield, P. J. and Terrell and Davis, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 876–878

Head Matter:
Mediterranean Corporation, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Spirros Pappas, a single man, Edgar L. Nash, et al., Appellees.
146 So. 106.
147 So. 270.
Division B.
Opinion filed November 28, 1932.
Opinion filed February 23, 1933.
Order entered April 7, 1933.
Stapp, Gourley, Vming & Ward, for Appellant;
T. D. Ellis, Jr., and John W. Whelan,, for Appellees.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is a companion ease to that of A. W. Kurz v. D. Pappas, and others, recently considered by us, 146 So. 100, 147 So. 271. Both cases were argued together. Both are appeals from final decrees. Each is controlled by the principles of law and equity heretofore laid down in Sandquist & Snow, Inc. v. Kellogg, 101 Fla. 568,133 Sou. Rep. 65, 101 Fla. 579, 136 Sou. Rep. 235.
In the instant ease the right to a priority in the property involved, as between appellant, a mortgage assignee, and the owner of the fee, one Patehen, a subsequent grantee under the purchaser at a mechanic's lien foreclosure, was litigated. The master held, and the Chancellor sustained his ruling, that under the evidence submitted, the adjudicated lien for labor and materials under which appellee claimed, accrued prior to the date of the mortgage. Foreclosure of the mortgage as against the mechanic's lien was denied and the bill of complaint was ordered dismissed without prejudice to- any other right of the mortgage holder.
The ruling should be affirmed on the authority of the companion case to this, decided at the present term.
Affirmed.'
Whitfield, P. J. and Terrell and Davis, J. J., concur.
Buford, C.J., concurs in the opinion and judgment.
Piled under Rule 21-A.