Chester City Presbyterian Church v. Conlin

Citations

• 19 Pa. Super. 515
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 142

Syllabus

<p>Mechanic's lien — Additions and alterations — Church building.</p> <p>Where an old church building having a frontage of forty feet and a depth of sixty feet, has added to it and structurally incorporated with it a new building having a frontage of sixty feet, and a depth of twenty feet, and other changes are made in the old building, so that the entire work, old and new, when completed was so blended as to constitute a church edifice which is a unit, a mechanic’s lien cannot be filed against the new portion of the structure. Such a building operation is an alteration of and addition to an existing building against which no right of lien exists, if the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1887, P. L. 118, as to notice, have not been complied with.</p>