Clark v. Manning
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jameson, Judge, presiding. This was a petition for a mechanic’s lien, filed by Wm. E. Clark and Lewis E. Clark against Michael W. Manning, Henry L. Hammond and Edward A. Lawrence.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jameson, Judge, presiding. This was a petition for a mechanic’s lien, filed by Wm. E. Clark and Lewis E. Clark against Michael W. Manning, Henry L. Hammond and Edward A. Lawrence. The written contract entered into on May 10, 1873, provided that the petitioners should make, erect, build and finish in a good and substantial and workmanlike manner, a brick building on the lot of Manning, known as lot 1, block 2, in Smith’s subdivision of the north-west quarter of the northeast quarter, section 18, town 39, range 14 east of the third…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
This was a proceeding to establish a mechanic’s lien on the premises described in the petition.. In the contract between the parties the premises were not correctly described, but it is evident from the testimony the building was erected on property owned by defendant as described in the petition, and it is equally clear the work was done under and in pursuance of the written agreement. No time was fixed or specified in the contract within which the work was to be completed, and it is said petitioners, for that reason, can have no lien under the statute for anything due them under the express…
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