Hetzel

The Harbolt Hotel Corporation was, on the seventeenth day of April, 1917, the owner of a certain lot in the city of Los Angeles, and on said day said company entered into a written contract with one Valentine Hetzel for the erection on said lot of a hotel building. Said contract was not filed for record in the office of the county recorder of said county until the ninth day of June, 1917. On April 30, 1917, said hotel company executed a mortgage upon said real property in favor of appellant, the Western Loan and Building Company, to secure the payment of a promissory note for $42,972.50, and said mortgage was, on the seventh day of June, 1917, duly filed for record in the office of the said county recorder. Thereafter, respondents performed labor and furnished material in the construction of said hotel building, under said contract between said hotel company and the said Hetzel. Failing to receive payment for said labor and materials they filed liens for the respective amounts due them and thereafter instituted their actions for the foreclosure of such liens. The court rendered judgment in favor of said lien claimants, the respondents herein, not only sustaining their liens but…