Hooven, Owens & Rentschler, Co. v. John Featherstone's Sons
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to and Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This is a suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien for the balance of the purchase price of an engine. Tlie Jacob Dold Packing Company, the respondent, was a corporation which owned and operated a packing plant in Kansas City, in the state of Missouri.
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In Error to and Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This is a suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien for the balance of the purchase price of an engine. Tlie Jacob Dold Packing Company, the respondent, was a corporation which owned and operated a packing plant in Kansas City, in the state of Missouri. On December 10, 1897, John Featherstone’s Sons, a corporation, contracted to furnish to the Bold Company at Kansas City a refrigerating plant consisting of an engine arid other machinery, for the sum of $18,750. The Ilooven, Owens & Rentscliler…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
Tlie court specifically found the facts in this case, and then held as conclusions of law that the claim of lien which the appellant filed did not contain a sufficient description of the property sought to-be ■charged to identify it, and that it contained one item, amounting to *84$74-35) which was furnished under a different contract from that under which the engine was provided, and for these reasons it rendered a decree that “the plaintiff is not entitled to the enforcement of its alleged mechanic’s lien as against the defendant Jacob Dold Packing Company, and that the plaintiff take nothing…
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