Bumiller

This is an appeal from an order denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial. The record shows that four separate actions to enforce laborers and materialmen’s liens upon a building were consolidated and tried together, as provided in section 1195 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The respective plaintiffs were Pacific S'ash & Door Company, Woodill-Hulse Electric Company, Union Iron Works of Los Angeles, and E. J. Johnston. The liens were asserted against the property in Los Angeles known as the Bumiller Building, owned by A. W. Bumiller, Edna B. Sullivan, and Stella B. Burks. The materials and labor were furnished and performed at the instance of one Floyd Thompson, who at the time occupied the basement and first three floors of the building under a sub-lease from a lessee of the owners. The materials and labor were furnished and performed in the mating of certain alterations in the building so as to adapt the same for use as a theatre. It consisted in putting in a balcony, the front part of which was supported by an iron beam extending across the room and fixed in the walls, and the erection of a stage with the necessary fixtures and adjuncts therefor, and other structures not…