Henley v. Wadsworth

This is an action by a sub-contractor against the employer and original contractor, to recover the amount due plaintiff as sub-contractor and assignee of other claims due other mechanics and material men from the original contractor, and to enforce the amount so due plaintiff, as a lien upon the premises and superstructure thereon erected, under the Mechanics’ Lien Law of April 26, 1862.

On the 26th day of May, 1866, the defendant, T. L. Wads-worth, of the first part, and defendant, Julius Feidler, of the second part, entered into an agreement in writing for the construction of a three-story…