Porter

The appellant instituted a suit against the respondent Porter as the owner of certain real property in Orange County, and the respondent corporation as lessee, praying foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien filed by appellant and evidencing an alleged indebtedness for materials furnished the respondent Richfield Union Oil Company for the construction of a certain building, derrick, outbuildings, and appurtenances and the drilling of an oil well upon the premises. The case was tried before the superior court and a judgment was rendered in favor of the respondents, from which the plaintiff appeals.

It appears from the pleadings that on the sixth and seventh days of April, 1921, appellant furnished and delivered materials of an alleged value of $2,500.22, for which it filed a mechanic’s lien dated October 17, 1921, and that on January 13, 1922, this action was commenced for the foreclosure of the lien, and appellant alleged in its complaint that no part of the price of the materials had been paid.

Upon the trial respondents introduced evidence tending to show that the other defendants named in the complaint had no interest in the subject matter of the action, which the trial court found…