Hobkirk v. Portland Baseball Club
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Melvin C. George, Judge. This is a suit by Peter Hobkirk against the Portland National Baseball Club and others, and the Hawthorne Estate, for the foreclosure of a mechanics’ lien. From a decree in favor of plaintiff, the Hawthorne Estate appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
This is a suit to foreclose a mechanic’s lien. About January 1, 1903, the defendant the Hawthorne Estate leased to W. H. Lucas, for the use of the defendant the Portland National Baseball Club, a corporation thereafter to be organized, certain property in East Portland for a baseball field. In March the plaintiff entered into a written contract with the defendants Grim and Drake, acting on behalf of Lucas and the proposed corporation, to furnish the material and labor necessary for the construction of a “grand stand, bleachers, and fences on and surrounding” the property, according to certain…
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