Des Moines Savings Bank v. Goode
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. W. F. Conrad, Judge. Plaintiff, as assignee, of the Scoville Plumbing Company, brings this action in equity to recover judgment against E. J. Goode for nine hundred and six dollars and fifty cents and interest, and for the establishment and foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien on real estate described. Defendants answer, joining issues as will appear in the opinion. Decree was rendered in favor of the plaintiff as prayed.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. W. F. Conrad, Judge. Plaintiff, as assignee, of the Scoville Plumbing Company, brings this action in equity to recover judgment against E. J. Goode for nine hundred and six dollars and fifty cents and interest, and for the establishment and foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien on real estate described. Defendants answer, joining issues as will appear in the opinion. Decree was rendered in favor of the plaintiff as prayed. Defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
*5701 *569I. In the spring of 1893, and for several years prior thereto, L. W. Goode, son of the defendants, was *570engaged in buying, selling and improving real estate in tbe city of Des Moines. The firm of Laing & Scoville, predecessors to the Scoville Plumbing Company, did the plumbing work for L. W. Goode in the buildings built and remodeled by him up to the time said firm ivas dissolved, and thereafter such plumbing was done by the Scoville Plumbing Company. The account with Laing & Scoville was fully settled, and does not enter into this controversy. In April, 1892, L. W. Goode acquired title, by…
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