Huffman v. Hill

— This is an action in equity to recover $175.93 as the balance due for cement work at defendants’ home and to establish and foreclose a mechanic’s lien therefor. Defendants filed cross-petition for $493 for claimed failure of plaintiff to perform the contract in a workmanlike manner. Following trial, the court held the work was not done in all particulars in a workmanlike manner and therefore plaintiff’s claim should be reduced $75 — ten per cent of the full contract price. From decree for plaintiff for $100.93 and establishing and foreclosing mechanic’s lien therefor defendants have…