Williams Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. Ginsburg

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Greene County. Plaintiff, as assignee of the claims of numerous persons for labor in the erection of a building, sued to enforce a mechanic’s lien. ' The defendants filed a demurrer and the court sustained it on the ground that Section 3225, Revised Statutes 1929 (Mo. Stat. Ann., sec. 3225, p. 5033), violates Section 28 of Article IV of the Missouri Constitution, as applied to the right of an assignee to sue on such claims as plaintiff asserts. Plaintiff appealed.

Section 28, Article IV, of our Constitution, reads:

“No bill . . . shall contain more than one…