Berkshire Warehouse Co. v. Hilger & Co.

This is an appeal, on a certificate of importance, by the Edward Hines Lumber Company from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the superior court of Cook county denying appellant a mechanic’s lien against the property of appellee, the Berkshire Warehouse Company, and dismissing the intervening petition of appellant for want of equity.

In July, 1909, appellee made a contract with Hilger & Co., a general contractor in Chicago, to construct certain improvements for $75,000 on the premises owned by appellee. Work was begun under this contract July 8, 1909, and continued,…