Blythe v. Poultney

By the Court, Currey, C. J.:

The plaintiffs brought this action against the defendant Cook to recover certain sums of money alleged to be due for materials furnished him for the construction of certain houses which he had contracted with the defendants Poultney & Smith to build for them on Brannan street, in the City of San Francisco, and for work and labor performed for him by the plaintiffs Freeman & McDonald in and about the building of the same houses; and also to obtain a decree of the Court declaring the plaintiffs’ claims to be liens upon said houses and the land on which they were…