Olson-Mahoney Lumber Co. v. Dunne Investment Co.

Fourteen separate complaints were filed to enforce mechanics and materialmen’s liens, and by order of the court were consolidated and tried in one action. The plaintiffs in eleven of these several complaints are respondents and the appeal is here under the above title. Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiffs and from this judgment defendants appeal.

Defendants Condon and McGlynn were the contractors for the work; certain named persons defendants were owners of the property on which the building in question was erected, and defendant Dunne Investment Company was the owner of a lease executed by said owners, and erected said building in compliance with the terms of said lease. The building is situated on the northwest corner of Stockton and Ellis Streets, San Francisco.

The complaints were filed in the latter part of the year 1909 and were brought to issue by answers in 1910 and, on January 4, 1912, came on for trial, and findings of fact and conclusions of law were made on June 27, 1912, and judgment was entered on that day. Notice of appeal was served and filed July 27, 1912. Transcript on appeal was filed in the supreme court May 15, 1914. Appellants’ brief was filed…