Key legal question
Whether the tenant’s works gave rise to a mechanics’ lien for the Novopan panels used as accessories.
Extracted holding
No. The panels were accessories to the shop premises, and in a tenant-construction setting accessories do not create lien security absent a durable increase in the property’s value.
Extracted reasoning
In tenant works, lien protection is justified only if the owner consented and the works, by accession, permanently increased the value of the land. Accessories may be separately disposed of and do not meet that requirement.