Manowsky v. Stephan
Illinois Supreme Court
Appbai, from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farun Q. BaWv, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed by Gustav 'Manowsky, the appellee, in the superior court of Cook county, against August Stephan and Henrietta Stephan, appellants, and others, to enforce a mechanic’s lien for $300 against certain property owned by appellants, based on a contract between the appellee and appellants for the erection of a building on said premises.
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Appbai, from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farun Q. BaWv, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed by Gustav 'Manowsky, the appellee, in the superior court of Cook county, against August Stephan and Henrietta Stephan, appellants, and others, to enforce a mechanic’s lien for $300 against certain property owned by appellants, based on a contract between the appellee and appellants for the erection of a building on said premises. Appellants answered the bill, denying that the appellee had completed his contract and was entitled to the relief sought. A replication was filed and the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
In this case the superior court by its decree adjudged that the property owners should pay to the lienholder the sum of $75 as solicitor’s fees, in accordance with a. provision made by the last sentence of section 17 of the Mechanic’s Lien law, being paragraph 31 of chapter 82, Hurd’s Revised Statutes of 1905. That section reads as follows ^ “The cost of proceedings as between all parties to the suit, shall be taxed equitably against the losing parties, and where taxed against more than one party, shall be so taxed against all in favor of the proper party but equitably as between themselves;…
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