Interiors Contracting Inc. v. Navalco

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• considering that the improvements “clearly benefitted both lessor and lessee” as important in implying agency
• stating that a lease can create an agency between a lessor and a lessee under the mechanic’s lien law when the improvement is for the benefit of the lessor and he is having the work done through his lessee
• noting “the shortness of the lease” as a factor in implying agency (quotations and citations omitted)
• considering the “extent, cost, and character” of the alterations to be important facts in implying an agency relationship (quotations and citations omitted)
• considering as important in determining whether Hungry Hawaiian was “an agent of Green Acres under the [Act],” that “certain improvements were made to the premises which clearly and actually conferred a value on Green Acres when Hungry Hawaiian terminated its tenancy.” (emphasis added)
• a lessor’s interest is subject to a mechanic’s lien only if there exists “an express or implied contract between the lessor or his agent and the contractor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).