Supreme Judicial Court of Maine December 27, 1882 (Sands v. Sands)

Virgin, J.

Numerous cases decide that a lien claim is lost when absorbed or merged in a judgment'with a non-lien claim. But there is no objection to amending a writ before judgment by striking out a non-lien claim and taking judgment for the other and thus preserve the lien. On the contrary such an amendment was allowed in Spofford v. True, 33 Maine, 297.