Farnham

Three suits to foreclose mechanics’ liens were brought against T. E. Pope, George M. Seaton and Mary Shinn Seaton, and the two corporations above named, which suits were by order of the court consolidated. Plaintiffs obtained judgment, which provided, among other things, that the amounts found due constituted liens upon the premises described in the complaint. From this judgment the two defendant corporations have appealed.

Briefly, the facts are as follows: The improvements consisted of a large three-story building, comprising about seventeen rooms, a bam and a tank-house. The court found that the lots upon which the barn and tank-house were situated were separate from that upon which the principal building stood, and that the labor done and materials furnished for said barn and tank-house had been paid for in full. No lien is claimed on either of these improvements. In March, 1901, the property involved in this action belonged to Bertha Thorn-dike and Starr M. Bruce, who, about that time, agreed to sell it to the defendants Seaton. There were defects in the title, which the vendors agreed to correct, but it was agreed that the Seatons might, in the meantime, occupy the…