Law v. Levine

Citations

• 13 Pa. Super. 152
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 126

Syllabus

<p>. Mechanic's lien — Alterations and additions — Notice to owner — Act of May 18, 1887. .</p> <p>Where a new structure and an old one are attached and so incorporated into an harmonious whole that they are only capable of use in common and as one building, they come under the operation of the Act of May .18, 1887, P. L. 118, and in order to subject them to liens the provisions of that act as to notice must be complied with. .</p> <p>The following changes were made in a building: the one and a half story shed roof extension extending along the south wall of the main building was torn down, and in its place was erected a one and a half story extension, which had a'fifteen foot frontage and extended back the full depth of the main building, thirty-two feet, narrowing to eight'feet in width in the rear. The door between the main storeroom and the old extension to the south was closed, and in its place there was cut through the wall an open archway six feet wide, to make access between the-differ;ent parts of the two rooms easier. In place of the old kitchen there was erected a new kitchen, which was fifteen feet square and one an'd a half story high. Both of these extensions were connected and attached to the main building, just as the structures which preceded them had been. From the kitchen led up a staircase, which was the only way by which the rooms on the second story could be reached. In the main building practically no changes were made, except the.removal of a part of the south wall, in order to make communication between the different parts of the store easier. The structure along the south wall was intended to be used just as the one and a half story structure which had preceded it had been used, as an appurtenance of the main storeroom, and, practically, the only difference was of fifteen feet frontage, while that which it replaced had been only ten feet. Both were the same width at the Tear end, and in neither was the half story formed by the sloping of th