In re Wade Lupe Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “every materialman who had in good faith supplied materials and lost possession of them [would be] at the mercy of a dishonest contractor who was willing to divert them to some other purpose. At the very least such a materialman would be required as a matter of ordinary precaution to send an inspector with each lot of materials he furnished who should watch them until they had finally been placed in the improvement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pennex Aluminum Co. v. International Fidelity Insurance