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" Among those laid down, and probably the best rule to be adopted, is that if there appear enough in the description to enable a party familiar with the locality to identify the premises intended to be described with reasonable certainty, to the exclusion... "
Minnesota Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota - Page 119
by Minnesota. Supreme Court - 1894
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 16

1888 - 1022 pages
...shall be sufficient description to sustain a mechanic's lien seems now to "be that if there appears enough in the description to enable a party familiar...intended to be described, with reasonable certainty, it will be sufficient. T)e Witt v. Smith, supra; Bi'adish v. James, 83 Mo. 313. And in Kennedy v. House,...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 54

1899 - 1206 pages
...owner, the name of the contractor, the name of the claimant, and the description of the property, so as to enable a party familiar with the locality to identify...intended to be described with reasonable certainty, verified by affidavit, it will be sufficient. 2. Where a lien statement describes the property subject...
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 35

1894 - 1172 pages
...harmony with that laid down by Phillips as probably the best on the subject,— that there should be enough in the description "to enable a party familiar...intended to be described with reasonable certainty." Phil. Mech. Liens, § 379; Kneel. Mcch. Liens, § 195. Our statute only requires the description to...
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The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 34

1887 - 1076 pages
...Co., 4 Neb. 59. In Phil. Mech. Liens, § 379, it is said that probably the best rule to be adopted is "that, if there appear enough in the description to...intended to be described with reasonable certainty, it will be sufficient. There is great reluctance to set aside a mechanic's lien merely for loose description,...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 172

1915 - 1326 pages
..."Among those laid down, and probably the best rule to be adopted, is that if there appear enough in ths description to enable a party familiar with the locality...described with reasonable certainty, to the exclusion of others, it will be sufficient. There is great reluctance to set aside a mechanics' claim merely for...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 14

1891 - 1250 pages
...the case under consideration. Tested by this rule, the above description, we think, would "enablea party familiar with the locality to identify the premises intended to be described," etc. Consequently, we think the court erred in sustaining the exceptions to the petition, and dismissing...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 3

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1888 - 978 pages
...Phillips on Mechanics' Liens, section 379, it is said that probably the best rule to be adopted is, " that if there appear enough in the description to...intended to be described with reasonable certainty, it will be sufficient. There is great reluctance to set aside a mechanic's lien merely for loose description,...
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Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 116

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1916 - 638 pages
...description of property sought to be charged with a mechanic's lien is sufficient, if there appears enough in the description to enable a party familiar...Intended to be described, with reasonable certainty, and to the exclusion of all other property. 4. MECHANIC'S LIENS — ASSIGNMENT OF CLAIM — PASTIES....
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 18

1888 - 994 pages
...lien, at least, as to the owner, Simmons. If there is enough in the description in the lien notice to enable a party familiar with the locality to identify...described with reasonable certainty, to the exclusion of others, it is sufficient. Phil. Mech. Liens, §§ 379, 3bU. It is shown that these two lots were the...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 15

Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1888 - 710 pages
...a mechanic's lien seems now to be, that if there appears enough Opinion of the Court—Strahan, J. in the description to enable a party familiar with...intended to be described with reasonable certainty, it will be sufficient. (De Witt v. Smith, supra; Bradish v. Jones, 83 Mo. 313.) And in Kennedy v. House,...
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