Riggs Fire Insurance v. Shedd
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in a suit to enforce mechanics’ liens. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit in equity instituted in the Supreme Court of the District to enforce mechanics’ liens against a part of lot 14, in square number 223, in this city, the property of the appellant, The Riggs Fire Insurance Company.
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Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in a suit to enforce mechanics’ liens. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit in equity instituted in the Supreme Court of the District to enforce mechanics’ liens against a part of lot 14, in square number 223, in this city, the property of the appellant, The Riggs Fire Insurance Company. On March 3, 1896, one of the appellees, William C. Morrison, who was one of the defendants in the court below, contracted with the Insurance Company to erect a building on the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
There is a preliminary question of fact presented in this case respecting the time of the completion of the building mentioned in the proceedings. It is claimed on behalf of the appellant that it was substantially finished and complete at the time at which the last payment was made, September 24, 1896. On behalf of the appellees it is claimed that several things then remained undone which were required by the contract between the builder and the owner, and that the work of construction was not then complete.
Undoubtedly it is matter of common experience that, in the construction of houses…
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