National Lumber Co. v. Farmer & Son, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• fence erected to protect a tree from heavy machinery prior to excavation was not the beginning of the improvement
• “The real question ... is whether all the labor and material furnished subsequent to the execution and recording of the mortgage can be referred back ... for lien purposes.”
• “[I]t need only be demonstrated that the fence [erected before the mortgage was recorded] constituted ‘the actual and visible beginning of the improvement on the ground’ in order for the liens to attach.”
• in order to determine the first visible improvement, the key inquiry is “whether or not the improvement bears directly on the construction of the building rather than whether it is a part of the overall project involved”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).