Wood v. Rawlings

Citations

• 76 Ill. 206

Syllabus

<p>Mechanic’s lien—as against prior lien of record. Where the grantors of land reserved a lien in their deed on the premises for the unpaid purchase money, and. after the recording of the deed other parties erected a building on the land for the grantees, and obtained a decree for a mechanic’s lien, subject to the vendor’s lien, and on the faith of this decree the complainant purchased the notes given for the purchase money, and filed his bill to enforce the vendor’s lien, and .the court decreed in favor of such lien, declaring it prior to the mechanic’s lian, and ordered a sale of the land: Reid, that the decree enforcing the vendor’s lien was proper, and that those holding the mechanic’s lien were concluded by the decree in their own case from disputing the priority of the vendor’s lien; that the deed reserving the lien being recorded when the mechanics made their contract, was notice to them, and that they were estopped from alleging mistakes in their own proceedings, after the complainant bought the notes on the faith of their decree.</p>