Williams v. Judd-Wells Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thoenell, Judge. Chables R. Hannan is receiver for Kimball-Champ Investment Company, and both are parties defendant in this suit. About the first of May, 1890, the plaintiff entered into a contract with the Judd-Wells Company and C. B. Judd to furnish labor and building materials for twelve houses to be erected on lots in certain additions to the city of Council Bluffs.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thoenell, Judge. Chables R. Hannan is receiver for Kimball-Champ Investment Company, and both are parties defendant in this suit. About the first of May, 1890, the plaintiff entered into a contract with the Judd-Wells Company and C. B. Judd to furnish labor and building materials for twelve houses to be erected on lots in certain additions to the city of Council Bluffs. Thu houses were erected in pursuance of the contract, ten of them being on Park avenue and two on Avenue Gr. The houses were on separate lots, except that on one lot there…
1Opinion of the CourtGbang-eb, C. J.
1 2 *3813 *380I. Appellant’s particular complaint is that the “statement and lien seek to charge the eleven other buildings, and the lots on which they are situated, with a lien for the material furnished on each one, and to charge each one with a lien for all the material furnished for the remainder.” By the contract under which the lien is claimed, plaintiff was to do work on forty houses in the city at a certain price per yard of plastering and a certain price per thousand for brick in the wall. The contract included the twelve houses in question. The houses were on lots some of which are…
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