District Court, S.D. New York November 15, 1869 (In re Dey)

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

It is impossible to read the provisions of the act in connection with each other, as a systematic whole, without seeing that it is not the intention of the statute that the performing of the labor or the furnishing of the materials, shall, of itself, constitute a lien for the debt, upon the building or the land.