Meyers v. Bratespiece

Citations

• 174 Pa. 119
• 34 A. 551
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 857

Syllabus

<p>Bailment — Lien for work on goods — Locadio operis — Contract.</p> <p>In order to charge a chattel with the lien which a workman or artisan obtains by his labor and skill in increasing the value of personal property placed in his possession to be improved, the labor must have been done at the request of the owner, or under circumstances from which his assent can be reasonably implied; it does not extend to one not in privity with the owner.</p> <p>II. received from plaintiffs cloth to be made into coats, and without the knowledge of plaintiffs delivered some of it to defendant to do the required work, agreeing to pay defendant forty per cent more for making the coats than he was to receive from plaintiffs. Held, that defendant had no lien on the coats as against plaintiffs for the work which he had done.</p>