Markholm Construction Company Limited and Another v Myrie Developments Limited and Another - [1969] NZLR 225

Work and labour — Wages protection and contractors' liens — Liens declared valid by Supreme Court on appeal — Subsequent application to Magistrate for direction that property subject to lien be sold — Application opposed on ground that notices of liens defective — Application refused in error — Res judicata — Whether direction for sale should issue — Whether registration of transfer of property subject to lien affected position — Wages Protection and Contractors' Liens Act 1939, s. 43 (1)

Estoppel — Effect of res judicata — Declaration that liens valid — Validity of notices of liens challenged in subsequent proceedings — Matter traversable but not traversed in original proceedings — Declaration of validity carried with it determination that all things preliminary to validity were in order.