Reed v. Boyd
Illinois Supreme Court
'Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. William W. Far-well, Judge, presiding. This was a petition by Thomas C. Boyd and James J. Bufton, against Joseph S. Reed, Joseph E. Moss, Margaret E. Gulliver, Francis Peabody and Benjamin E. Gallup, to establish and enforce a mechanic’s lien. The material facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Walked
delivered the opinion of the Court:
■ Defendants in error, about the 26th of July, 1872, as they allege in their petition, “entered into a verbal agreement with Joseph S. Reed and Joseph E. Moss, of Chicago, to furnish the materials and do the work for the plumbing and gas-fitting for the building known as the 1 Briggs House,’ then by the said Reed and Moss being erected on the corner of Wells and Randolph streets, Chicago, whereby the said Reed and Moss agreed with petitioners to pay petitioners the sum of ten per cent upon the cost of all such work and materials, from time…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fish v. StubbingsIllinois Supreme Court · 1872
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