Weber v. Bushnell

Mb. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion oe the Court.

Appellant was the lessee, for a term of ninety-nine years, of certain premises in Chicago, and on October 4, 1894, entered into a written contract with the appellees, whereby the latter undertook to erect for him an apartment house upon the premises for the agreed price of $40,000, and this was a petition filed by appellees to establish a mechanic’s lien upon said premises for a balance claimed to be due to them under the contract.

The decree found that although the nominal price to be paid was $40,000, the actual price was only…