Wall Paper Company's Appeal

Citations

• 15 Pa. Super. 407
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 367

Syllabus

<p>Mechanic's lien — Foreign corporation — Doing business.</p> <p>Where a foreign corporation has more than one branch store located in the city of Philadelphia separately organized and doing business as independent business houses, and has filed a statement giving the name of one of its agents and of one of its places of business which did not furnish the goods in question, such act is doing business within the meaning of the act of 1874, and offends against the 2d section of that act, and under such conditions a mechanic’s lien in Pennsylvania cannot be sustained.</p> <p>Mechanic's lien — Credit given to the equities in the house.</p> <p>A mechanic’s lien cannot be sustained where it appears as a fact that the claimant did not look to the operation but to the equities in the houses.</p>