Dingley v. Greene
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Twelfth District Court, City and County of San Francisco.
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Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Twelfth District Court, City and County of San Francisco. Daingerfield, J. From the findings of the Court, it appears that McMeekan (the original contractor) received $11,675 before he absconded; that McCann (the contractor who completed the building) received $10,800; and that defendant Greene paid a watchman, between the absconding of McMeekan and the substitution of McCann, $71; in all, $22,546; and the judgment was for $1,454—the difference between this and the original contract price of $24,000. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Department No. 1, McKee, J.;
This is a suit which includes several actions consolidated into one, to recover judgment against the defendant McMeekan for the sum of $4,784.71, and to enforce mechanics’ liens as security for its payment, upon the premises described in the complaint as the property of the defendant Greene.
It appears by the record, that on the 22nd day of September, 1875, the defendant McMeekan made a contract with his co-defendant Greene to build for her several houses upon her land in the city of San Francisco for the sum of $24,000, payable in nine installments, from time to…
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