Lakeview Drilling Co. v. STARK

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment order of the circuit court, which dismissed the plaintiff’s complaint after the court had transferred the cause to the law side, ruled that the complaint failed to state a cause of action, ordered the plaintiff to amend, and the plaintiff had declined to amend.

The proceeding out of which this appeal arose began as a suit to foreclose a lien claimed for the drilling of a well on property in Lake county. Plaintiff, Lake-view Drilling Company, Inc., is a corporation. Lyell W. Stark, Ralph W. Stark, G. D. Stockburger, John Doe and Richard Roe are…