Builders Supply & Coal Co. v. Eggmann
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. Robert H. Flannigan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Higbee
2. Mechanics’ liens, § 56*—when persons furnishing labor and materials not subcontractors. Where a person who contracts with others for labor and materials to build a house is the purchaser of the lot on which the house is to be built and has no contract by which he is to build, or furnish work and materials for the vendor who retained the legal title, he is not a contractor within the meaning of the Mlechanics’ Lien Act (J. & A. K 7139), and persons contracting directly with him to furnish labor and materials are principal contractors and not subcontractors so as to be required to • give…
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