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AMERICAN BRIDGE DIVISION U.S. STEEL CORP. v. BRINKLEY

No. 536.

120 S.E.2d 529 (1961)

255 N.C. 162

AMERICAN BRIDGE DIVISION UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Plaintiff (and Ready-Mixed Concrete of Dunn, Inc., Additional Plaintiff by way of Statutory Joinder and Intervention), v. E. P. BRINKLEY and United States Casualty Company, Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 16, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Winborne, Vaughan S. Winborne, and Samuel Pretlow Winborne, for appellant.

Smith, Leach, Anderson & Dorsett, Raleigh, for appellee.

RODMAN, Justice.

Our Constitution contains a mandate directing the General Assembly to enact legislation to give mechanics and laborers a lien on the subject matter of their labor. N. C. Constitution, Art. XIV, § 4. Public policy prohibits the acquisition of liens for labor or materials used or furnished in the construction of a public edifice or way. Noland Co. v. Board of Trustees, 190 N.C. 250, 129 S.E. 577, and cases there cited.

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