Waterbury Lumber & Coal Co. v. Coogan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to foreclose a mechanic’s lien, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The complaint claimed the foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien. The facts as set forth in the finding, are, briefly, these: —
The defendant, Patrick T. Coogan, on the 22d day of July, 1899, made a written contract with Benton A. Irion, which provided that Irion was to build a dwelling-house for him. If Irion completed the house, furnishing all the material and doing all the work, then a certain sum was to be paid; if he neglected, refused or in anywise failed to complete the house, then a less sum was to be paid. The contract pointed out the way in which this lesser sum was to be ascertained.…
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