Parsons Electric Co. v. Village of Watertown

Otis, Justice.

Plaintiff, an electrical contracting company, has brought this action against the owners and operators of a rubber and paint-mixing plant to assert a mechanics lien and to recover a personal judgment for work and material furnished in the repair of electrical motors which were damaged by flooding of the Minnesota River in 1965. The matter was heard without a jury. At the conclusion of the trial, plaintiff abandoned its claim for a mechanics lien. The court ordered judgment in the sum of $8,337.40 against appellant, L. A. Potter, and against the estate of the deceased defendant,…