Conner

The case above entitled was consolidated for trial with some twenty-five other cases involving the same property and the same questions. Pursuant to the stipulation of counsel the determination of this, ease concludes the others. In some of the cases the defendant above named was the plaintiff, with some of the individual plaintiffs in the remaining cases made defendants. The cases wherein the status of the present defendant and appellant was defendant were in the nature of actions to quiet title; the cases wherein the present defendant appeared as plaintiff were actions to foreclose liens upon the respective parcels of property described.

In all of the actions, however, as far as this appellant is concerned, the main question was the validity of the asserted claim of lien. We may remark, in passing, that the record comes before us in a most unsatisfactory manner. Appellant presents but one question, namely, the claim of estoppel as against the original owner and contractor. Tet the findings disclose that the trial court made several general findings, unquestioned here, which might support the judgment even though it be found that the court was in error on the only point…