Lowe v. East & West Coast Railway

In a suit to enforce a laborer’s lien, there was ultimate decree for the complainant in the sums of $9,000.00 for work and labor done and bestowed upon the road bed and track of the defendant company,, interest amounting to $1,902.00 and for $1,096.20 as attorney fee. Sec. 2191 et sseq., Gen. Stats., 1906.

The complainant appealed, claiming a right to a larger recovery, while the defendant as appellee filed cross-assignments of error under Special Rule 4 permitting it in chancery cases, the purpose being to contest the recovery awarded by the decree.

As the items of labor proven under the…