Kankakee Coal Co. v. Crane Bros. Manufacturing Co.

This was a petition brought by Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company, against the Kankakee Coal Company and others, to enforce a mechanic’s lien. It is alleged in the petition that the Kankakee Coal Company applied to petitioner “to furnish it, for use in its coal mine, on the lands hereinafter named, one horizontal link-motion engine, for hoisting purposes, and that on the 14th day of March, 1883, your petitioner and said coal company made a contract for mine hoisting machinery, to be delivered by your petitioner on board the cars in Chicago, Illinois, for the sum of $2200, to be paid for,…