Leitch v. Central Dispensary & Emergency Hospital
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the complainant from a decree sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing a bill to enforce a mechanics’ lien. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
This is a suit instituted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the appellants, Robert and James M. Leitch, as complainants, to enforce an alleged mechanics’ lien claimed by them upon the building and real estate of the appellee for materials furnished by them to a sub-contractor upon the building. The proceeding was by bill in equity, to which a demurrer was interposed by the appellee; and the demurrer being sustained by the court below, the bill was dismissed. From the decree of dismissal the present appeal has been prosecuted.
From the bill of complaint it appears that the…
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- Stewart-Chute Lumber Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1889
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