Western Brass Manufacturing Co. v. Boyce

— William H. Miltenberger, in March 1895, was the owner of a tract of land situated at the corner of Lindell Boulevard and Sarah street in the city of St. Louis, which he subdivided in nine separate lots and commenced the erection thereon of nine sopa*344rate dwelling houses, known and numbered as numbers 4103, 4107, 4111,4115,4117, 4121, 4125, 4129, and 4133 Lindell Boulevard, being separate dwellings on continuous lots. On March 27, 1895, Miltenberger entered into a written contract with defendant Arthur Boyce, a plumber, whereby Boyce agreed to do the plumbing work on all of the nine houses.…