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ment and the lease, that it would construct a building, but this was not a contract “for the doing of work or service or placing or furnishing materials”. Those words are apt to describe a building contractor who undertakes to construct a building for another person. In the present case Metropolitan did not undertake to do the work of construction for Manufacturers. It contracted, as a condition of the loan, that a building would be constructed on the land, but it constructed that building, not as a contractor for Manufacturers, but for itself as owner of the leasehold interest. In my opinion, Metropolitan was not a contractor within s. 1(a), and, therefore, the materials supplied by Northern were furnished for Metropolitan as owner, and not as a contractor for Manufacturers. That being so, s. 5 does not give to Northern a lien as against the interest of Manufacturers in the land.
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