Clark v. Moore

It appears that one George Wells, of the city of Mendota, in the year 1869, erected and put into operation an oil mill in that place; that appellees furnished $10,000 worth of machinery for the purpose of completing the factory; that Clark, Davis and Dawson' furnished materials for the structure, and Gilmore and Price held mortgages on the propertv. Clark and Davis filed a petition against Wells to enforce a mechanic’s lien, and Dawson became a party, he filing a bill of interpleader; and at the February term, 1870, of the circuit court of LaSalle county, a decree was rendered in their favor,…