Kremer

In August, 1887, the appellants made a contract in writing with one Lane for the construction of a frame building. Lane commenced work under the contract in August, but the contract was not filed in *207 the recorders office until October. The court finds that the building was completed February 23,1888, and also that in January it had been accepted by the architect as finished, and that upon such acceptance it had been occupied by the appellants prior to its actual completion. Claims of lien in behalf of the three plaintiffs herein were filed in the recorder’s office on the eighth, fifteenth, and seventeenth days of March respectively, and the said claimants having thereafter begun separate actions for their enforcement, the three actions were consolidated, and upon their trial, judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, from which, and from an order denying a new trial, the defendants have appealed.

The lot of land upon which the building was constructed is situated at the northeast corner of Hope and Eighth streets, in Los Angeles, and is a portion of block 28 of the Huber tract, having a frontage on Hope Street of about seventy feet. Block 28 has a frontage of three…