Johnson v. McLennan

Ryan, C.

The appellee filed his petition in the district court of Lancaster county for the enforcement of a mechanic’s lien against certain real property on which appellee had erected a dwelling house for appellants. The balance for which a lien was claimed was $204.80, with interest thereon from November 26,1890. By way of answer and cross-petition-the appellants, after a denial of certain averments of the petition and an admission of the correctness of others, alleged that the building erected by appellee was constructed so unskillfully that appellants had thereby sustained dam*685age in the sum…