Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1871 (Landers v. Dexter)

Morton, J.

The petitioner claims a lien for a general balance of account for labor performed and furnished on twenty houses, treating the whole as one estate.

It is evident that the petitioner cannot prevail unless he can maintain his lien for the whole of his debt, nor unless the lien attached to the whole estate. Rathbun v. Hayford, 5 Allen, 406.

It appears from the report, that in June or .