Kehoe v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. ““Ordinarily, the contractor for the material delivers the same, and includes the expense of hauling in the price of the material. No objection, so far as we are aware, has ever been made to thus including the expense of hauling in the price of the material. If it may be so included, and the lien made to cover the same, why may not the cartman make a separate contract for hauling, and acquire a valid lien therefor? We can discover no valid reason why, if the contract to haul the lumber is made directly by the owner with the cartman, he may not enforce a lien therefor. The hauling of the material, in many instances, constitutes a large item in the expense of the building, especially where the same is built of stone or brick. Labor, therefore, in getting the material together upon the ground, ready for the structure, is fairly within the meaning of our mechanic’s lien law of work upon the building— work that enters into, and constitutes labor upon, the building. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Twin Falls Salmon River Land & Water Co.