Berger Mfg. Co. v. Huggins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Suit by the Berger Manufacturing Company against trustees of the William Jewell College and George W. Huggins, who counterclaimed. From a decree for the last-named defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MUNGER, District Judge.
Appellant, the Berger Manufacturing Company, brought suit in the court below against George W. Huggins and the trustees of William Jewell College, seeking to establish and foreclose a mechanic’s lien. Mr. Huggins was a contractor, and had made a successful bid to the trustees for the erection of a dormitory building according to plans and specifications that had been prepared by Felt & Co., architects, for a building not of fireproof material. The Berger Company induced the college trustees to adopt its system of fireproof construction, and the contract as finally…
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