Hurst

Plaintiff sued for $3,500 for labor and services for fourteen months at $250 per month and prayed that the claim be foreclosed as a mechanic’s lien. He was given judgment against his employer for the amount but was denied the lien and now appeals from the judgment.

Defendant Bigelow was the owner of 238 acres of land and orchard in Sonoma County. He leased it to a group of associates acting for the Moon Golf and Country Club for five years. The lease carried an option to purchase. These lessees assigned to defendant Lichtenberg who gave defendant Partridge an option. The latter gave an option to Mr. Woodburn, president of defendant Peninsular Development Corporation. This company employed plaintiff at a salary of $250 per month to manage, supervise and keep in a state of repair the fifty acres of the leased premises which had been used and which it was intended to again use as a nine-hole golf course. Plaintiff commenced his period of employment January 11, 1925. He continued in the said employment until and after March 11, 1926. What work he did during this period is not clearly enough described in the evidence to form the basis of a detailed account. He styled himself a hotel…