Grimm v. Rhoades

The appellee Nat H. Youngblood, Receiver, brought suit to foreclose a mechanic’s lien on certain real estate in Vanderburgh County belonging to appellees Harold Rhoades and Addie Rhoades, husband and wife. The appellants, Earl J. Grimm and Esther G. Tomey Cotton, partners doing business under the firm name of A. C. Grimm Planing Mill, were made parties defendant because they were allegedly claiming some interest in the Rhoades property. They answered by way of a cross-complaint in which they claim to be the holders of a mechanic’s lien on the Rhoades property and asked that it be foreclosed…