Matlock v. Williams

Suit to enforce mechanic’s lien. The trial before the court resulted in a general judgment against the contractor, and a judgment in favor of the other defendants. The answers of the defendants were separate ones, and both denied the chief allegations of the petition, and among them that the lien was filed, etc., within the requisite statutory period. The plaintiff filed his replies to these answers. But the account which was filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court, showing the date of its filing, and proper verification, is not to be found incorporated in the bill of exceptions, nor even…