M. E. Kraft Excavating & Grading Co. v. Barac Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that mechanic’s liens are “purely creatures of statutes and the rights of the parties are governed by the language of the statutes”
• explaining that “[mjechanics liens are purely creatures of statutes and the rights of the parties are governed by the language of the statutes”
• surveying work to determine boundaries, location of building and excavation do not constitute commencement
• neither a survey nor architectural services constituted the actual and visible improvement on the ground
• work should be sufficiently visible that person using reasonable diligence could see it
• “[T]he material or labor furnished for the improvement must represent an actual beginning of the improvement on the ground and it must be visible; that is, it must be visible to the extent that a person using reasonable diligence in examining the premises must be able to see it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).