Mattice v. Lillie

By the court, Hogeboom, Justice.

This is an equity suit, evidently designed, from the form of the complaint, to charge the real estate owned by the female defendant with the value of the plaintiff’s lumber which went into the construction of the house upon it, upon the ground that the estate has had the benefit of the consideration thus furnished; that it was furnished for the express purpose of being so applied, and essentially upon the credit of such estate, being sold to the defendant, Charles Lillie, upon the faith of his assurance that he was the *265owner of the real property, and thus…