Langford v. South Florida Lumber & Supply Co.

Citations

• 63 Fla. 484

Syllabus

<p>1. Where a statutory lien may be obtained by compliance with stated requirements there must be a substantial performance of all the requisites before the lien is acquired.</p> <p>2. A notice served by a material man upon the owner of property that he has a contract with the person who is’ erecting a building on the owner’s land for a stated number of dollars’ worth of material to be used in the building, that the contractor has been called on for a settlement, and that the money is long past due and the material man will look to the owner for the account, is not a statement that the contractor is indebted to the material man for materials in a sum stated in the notice as required by the statute, so as to give the material man a lien on the owner’s property, there being no privity between the material man and the owner of the property on which the lien is claimed.</p>