Wall v. Robinson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to enforce a lien for work and labor under the St. of 1872, c. 318, § 1. The respondents demurred to the petition, and at the hearing in the Superior Court, the demurrer was sustained, and the petitioners appealed to this court. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The petition, as amended, alleges that the petitioners performed and furnished labor in the erection of buildings and structures, to wit, three dwelling-houses and one stable, upon a lot of land owned by the defendants, by virtue of a contract with one Barnard and with the consent of the owners of the lot. By the contract, as stated in the amendment, the petitioners were to do certain work specified, upon the houses and the stable, and were to be paid one hundred and forty dollars for each house and thirty dollars for the stable. We cannot construe the petition aa alleging that the work upon…
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