Barrows v. Baughman
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal by complainant from the Wayne Circuit in Chancery. Tho bill alleged that, on August 11, 1855, .John A, Baughman was the owner of a tract of land in Spring-wells, conveyed to him by Bela Hubbard, containing about 18 acres, and was about to erect a large and valuable brick house on nine acres thereof described in the bill, and entered into a contract with Stephen S. Barrows for the building of the same, as follows: “ Articles of agreement made this seventeenth day of…
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Appeal by complainant from the Wayne Circuit in Chancery. Tho bill alleged that, on August 11, 1855, .John A, Baughman was the owner of a tract of land in Spring-wells, conveyed to him by Bela Hubbard, containing about 18 acres, and was about to erect a large and valuable brick house on nine acres thereof described in the bill, and entered into a contract with Stephen S. Barrows for the building of the same, as follows: “ Articles of agreement made this seventeenth day of August, 1855, by and between John A. Baughman of the city of Detroit, and State of Michigan, of the first part, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Cheistiancy J.:
We do not think the contract between complainant and Baughman would have entitled complainant 1o any relief on the ground of a mechanic’s lien, had it properly described the land; and (though we give no opinion upon the point) we are not entirely satisfied that, for the purpose of such lien, any further description was necessary, in a case like the present; the tract upon which the house was erected being less than one hundred and sixty acres. See Comp. L. §5068.
But the contract provides upon its face for a mortgage security upon the same land to which the lien is claimed to…
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