Case Name: Rome Brick Company v. West et al., executors
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1910-02-18
Citations: 134 Ga. 65
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rome Brick Company v. West et al., executors.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 134
Pages: 65–65

Head Matter:
Rome Brick Company v. West et al., executors.
February 18, 1910.
Foreclosure of lieu. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court.
October 12, 1908.
John W. & G. E. Maddox, for plaintiff.
M. B. Eubanks and Dean & Dean, for defendants.

Opinion:
Atkinson, J.
1. In so far as it was sought to foreclose a lien this case is controlled by the ruling in Pike Brothers Lumber Co. v. Mitchell, 132 Ga. 675 (64 S. E. 998), where it was held: "In order to foreclose a materialman's lien for material furnished a contractor to be used' in improving the property of another, it is necessary that the materialman have judgment against the contractor in a previous action, or the contractor must be sued concurrently in the foreclosure proceedings with the owner of the property improved. If the contractor be adjudged a bankrupt, so that no judgment in personam can be had against him in an action at law, his immunity from liability to a personal judgment will not give the materialman a right to foreclose his lien in equity against the property improved."
2. The prayer to recover a general judgment against the estate of the deceased landowner was stricken from the petition by amendment.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.