Jennet Bridge & Iron Works v. Churchill

Mr. Presiding Justice Whitney

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree for a mechanic’s lien in a certain petition or cause under the statute in which the appellee was petitioner and Charles J. Off appellant, E. P. Churchill, E. C. Burroughs, Walter F. Benson, George K. Spoor, Sidney Lovell and Margaret Off were defendants. Benson filed an answer and intervening petition and Charles J. Off, Margaret Off and Lovell filed answers, and replications were filed to all of the answers, and Spoor, Churchill and Burroughs were defaulted. The cause was referred to the master to…