Owen v. Hill

I take a statement of the case from the brief of counsel for defendants. The italics are theirs:

“1. This suit is in trespass on the case, alleging as the sole cause of action that the defendants were, on the third day of September, 1885, trustees of union school district of the city of Saginaw, and as such trustees on that day let a contract to Benson Haskins, by which he was to furnish materials and build a school-house for said school district for the sum of 810,069; that the building was of such a char*44acter that, if belonging to a private person, a lien for labor and materials would attach…