Gregg

The action which gives rise to this appeal is one wherein the plaintiff and respondent sought to enforce as a mechanic’s lien a claim for $1,425 for gravel sold and furnished to the defendant H. & M. Drilling Company, and placed upon a strip of land in preparing the same for road purposes, which was a portion of a larger tract of land owned by defendants and appellants. From a judgment establishing plaintiff’s claim as a lien on a portion of the lands of appellants, this appeal is prosecuted.

Appellants were the owners of a tract of land, irregular in shape and comprising about 24 acres. The northerly boundary line of the land extended in a straight line easterly and westerly for a distance of 1,985 feet. The easterly four acres of the tract projected out, as it were, from the main body of the land like an arm. Along the easterly boundary of this portion of the tract lay the county highway. The main body of the land is exceedingly irregular in form, no two sides being parallel and no corner forming a right angle. The entire tract was leased by appellants to one Daynes for oil development purposes. He in turn subleased to the defendant H. & M. Drilling Company a portion of the…