Priebatsch v. Baptist Church

Citations

• 66 Miss. 345

Syllabus

<p>1. Mechanic’s Lien on Building. Title of purchaser.</p> <p>Where one, while acting for a church society, contracts a debt in his own name for lumber used in erecting a church building, which is sold under mechanic’s lien proceedings wherein the individual is sole defendant, the purchaser of the building acquires a good title thereto, even as against third persons having no notice of the lien or the sale thereunder.</p> <p>2. Removal oe Building. Laches of purchaser. Code 1880, g 1391.</p> <p>In such case, though the land belongs to another, the purchaser may, ‘‘ with reasonable dispatch,” enter and remove the building; but a delay of two years or more is prima facie fatal to such right, and in the absence of explanation is conclusive against it.</p>