Becker Roofing Co. v. Jones

This appeal is from an interlocutory decree sustaining the defendants’ demurrers to the amended bill filed by appellant seeking to enforce a materialman’s and mechanic’s lien against the lands and the building thereon (a residence), for materials and labor furnished by complainant in making repairs (placing a new roof) on the building, and for solicitor’s fees for enforcing the contract under which the materials and labor were furnished.

The bill avers that the roof was installed on said house under a contract between complainant and the defendant Jones, “who was the owner of said property,”…