Barden v. Briscoe

Campbell, J:

Plaintiffs seek to recover against defendants for articles and board furnished to certain laborers and others under an employment or undertaking from one Aldrich, who had taken a sub-contract from defendants to finish a six mile .section of the Detroit and Bay City Railroad, which defendants were building as general contractors.

The liability, so far as the allegations of error refer to it, is alleged to have arisen out of the fact that defendants *256paid the laborers during a portion of the time involved, and in paying them retained from each payment the amount of claims of such…