Keystone Mining Co. v. Gallagher
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to County Court of Boulder County. On February 14th, 1877, Gallagher filed his petition in the County Court of Boulder county for a mechanic’s lien.
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Error to County Court of Boulder County. On February 14th, 1877, Gallagher filed his petition in the County Court of Boulder county for a mechanic’s lien. The petition stated substantially that on the first day of August, 1876, and thence until the loth day of December of the same year, James W. Strong was the owner of the Keystone lode, situated in Magnolia mining district, in Boulder county; that Strong employed the petitioner to do certain work in developing said lode, and that the work was done by the petitioner between the first and fourteenth of September, 1876; also that Strong…
1Opinion of the Court
Stone, J".
The aggregate amount of the several sums found due the defendants in error as lien claimants, exceeded two thousand dollars, and it is assigned for error, that, under the constitutional limitation of the jurisdiction of county courts to two thousand dollars as to the amount claimed, the court below was without jurisdiction to render the decree. We cannot regard the decree as open to this objection. The demands of the lien claimants are several in their nature, and in the mode of their enforcement. Each files his separate statement as the statute requires. Each presents his separate…
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