Copeland v. Manton
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the District Court of Lucas county. Patrick Christie was indebted to J. & J. Toohey in the sum of $523, on a contract for the erection of a house on a lot owned by Christie. The Tooheys were indebted to J. & T. Mantón, in the sum of $294.96, for work and material on the same house, and in $191.96 upon another contract. In payment of this indebtedness, the Tooheys, on the 20th day of September, 1867, assigned to the Man-tons the claim due to them from Christie.
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Error to the District Court of Lucas county. Patrick Christie was indebted to J. & J. Toohey in the sum of $523, on a contract for the erection of a house on a lot owned by Christie. The Tooheys were indebted to J. & T. Mantón, in the sum of $294.96, for work and material on the same house, and in $191.96 upon another contract. In payment of this indebtedness, the Tooheys, on the 20th day of September, 1867, assigned to the Man-tons the claim due to them from Christie. The Tooheys were also indebted to Copeland & "Walterhouse in the sum of $590, for materials in the erection of the same…
1Opinion of the CourtBay, J.
The questions presented for our consideration are rendered practically unimportant, further than they affect this case, by the act of May 1, 1871, “ amendatory of, and supplementary to, the act entitled an act to create a lien in favor of mechanics and others in certain eases.” 68 Ohio L. 107.
The judgment sought to be reversed by this proceeding was rendered before the passage of that act, and the ‘controversy in this case is not affected by it, but must be determined by the law as it stood before the passage of the amendatory act.
The amount remaining due on a building contract between the…
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