Richards Brick Co. v. Wright

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Richards Brick Company, from the judgment and decision of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County dismissing a mechanic's lien suit upon the ground of the pendency in the court of a previously instituted equitable mechanic's lien suit involving claims against the same property, and so prohibitive of the maintenance of the instant suit.

Suit was instituted on February 19, 1932, the petition alleging, in substance, that plaintiff, as materialman, had entered into a contract with defendant E.H. Wright, as general contractor with the owners of the real estate…