Kidder v. Aholtz
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. Charles Emerson, Judge, presiding. This was a petition to have established a mechanics’ lien, filed by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, at the July term, 1862, of the Circuit Court of Macon county. There was a decree in favor of the complainant against a portion of the defendants, to which they sued out a writ of error. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This was a petition for a mechanics’ lien, filed by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error and others. It sets forth that the trustees of the Illinois Central Railroad sold, (without conveying) a certain tract of land to one Galloway; that Galloway sold "to one Rea; that Rea sold to one McKinney ; and that defendant in error, under a contract with. McKinney, built a house upon the land.
McKinney does not answer. Rea answers, setting up that he bought the land of Galloway, and sold to McKinney, but that McKinney forfeited his contract to him, and he forfeited his own to…
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