Edwin Pratt's Sons' Co. v. Schafer

The plaintiff, Edwin Pratt’s Sons’ Company, is engaged in the business of manufacturing and dealing in all kinds of forms and combinations of steel, iron and other metals including structural steel. The defendants, John A. Schafer and Louis F. Olson, in 1922 and thereafter, were building contractors, doing business as partners under the name of Schafer & Olson. The defendant, Clyde Smith, intervened as a defendant during the process of the suit, as an assignee pendente lite of Schafer & Olson. There is nothing in the record indicating that the defendant, assignee, has any greater rights in or…