Structure

Compare Building; Erect, 1.

Where a statute provided that for an injury caused by a structure legally placed upon a highway by a railroad company, the company, and not the person bound to keep the highway in repair, should be liable, it was held that by " structure " was meant some permanent stationary erection, rather thaji an object like a moving car or engine.^ Another statute authorizing a mechanic's lien on any house, manufactory, other building, appurtenance, fixture, or other structure, and on the interest of the owner in the lot on which the same stands or is removed to, for labor, machinery, or materials furnished by the contractor, for erecting, altering, repairing, or removing the sam6, was held not to authorize a lien upon a railroad, although, within the general signification of the term, a railroad may be considered a, " structure." ^