Hale Hardware Co. v. Ragland

On the 22d day of December, 1922, the Hale Hardware Company brought suit in the chancery court against E. A. Bagland to obtain judgment for $40.26 for materials used in constructing a certain building in Harrison, Arkansas, and to declare the amount of said judgment a lien on said building.-

E. A. Bagland filed an answer, in which he admitted that he owed the Hale Hardware Company the amount sued for, and, by way of cross-complaint, asked judgment against it for $725 as compensation due him for a breach of contract of employment.

The chancellor rendered a decree in favor of E. A. Bagland…