Legal Opinion

Chamberlain v. Hibbard

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided December 17, 1894PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This is a suit by H. 0. Chamberlain against Geo. L. Hibbard to foreclose a mechanics’ lien upon lot number one of block number fifty in Couch’s Addition to the City of Portland, Oregon.

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Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This is a suit by H. 0. Chamberlain against Geo. L. Hibbard to foreclose a mechanics’ lien upon lot number one of block number fifty in Couch’s Addition to the City of Portland, Oregon. It appears that the plaintiff, on March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entered into a contract with the defendant, by the terms of which he agreed to furnish the materials, construct the basement, and erect, according to certain plans and specifications, the walls of a four-story brick building upon said lot, and plaster the rooms therein, for the…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Moore.

1. The plaintiff in his claim of lien gives an itemized statement of the several amounts due under the original contract, and the amounts claimed to be due for the alleged extra work, and also the payments made thereon, except one of two hundred dollars, and by deducting the sum of the credits from the sum of the charges, seven hundred and two dollars and twenty-five cents is found to be due; but in his claim he demands only five hundred and two dollars and twenty-five cents, and from said omission it is *432contended that the lien is invalid because it fails to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. George Ainslie & Co. v. Bertha Kohn & Thompson, De Hart & Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1888
  2. Ball v. DoudOregon Supreme Court · 1894
  3. Hopwood v. PattersonOregon Supreme Court · 1862
  4. Curtis v. SestanovichOregon Supreme Court · 1894

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Sutherlin v. BloomerOregon Supreme Court · 1907
  2. Christman v. SalwayOregon Supreme Court · 1922
  3. Wilson v. MatteiCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1927
  4. Krieg v. UNION PACIFIC LAND RESOURCES CORPORATIONOregon Supreme Court · 1974
  5. Shea v. GravesOregon Supreme Court · 1933

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