Watson v. Watson

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of his complaint to foreclose upon a mechanics’ lien allegedly resulting from expenditures made by plaintiff while acting as property manager of defendants’ farmland. Plaintiff urges this court to expand the plain language of the Mechanics’ Liens Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 82, par. 1 et seq.) to include a manager of unimproved agricultural property as a contractor entitled to a lien. Without reaching that issue, we conclude that plaintiff’s expenditures failed to enhance the value of the property, thereby preventing attachment of a lien. Accordingly,…