United Masonry Inc. v. Riggs National Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• “it is the contractor’s performance under the contract that gives rise to the inchoate lien”
• A party intending to repudiate a contract based on fraud “must act within a reasonable time and with great punctuality upon learning of the wrong.”
• “A mechanic’s lien, although a statutory creation, has its foundation in a contract and it is a contractor’s performance under the contract that gives rise to the inchoate lien.”
• court noted that result may have been different had owner engaged contractor in single contract to furnish labor and materials to condominium project, rather than three separate contracts for each phase of construction, each with separate consideration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).