Moffitt Building Material Co. v. U. S. Lumber & Supply Co.

This is an action in equity to enforce a mechanic’s lien for materials furnished by plaintiff to a contractor for improvement of defendant owners’ house. Defendant contractor did not defend and permitted judgment by default. Defendant owners offered no evidence. Defendants relied on claimed weakness in plaintiff’s proof and the anguished cry in oral argument “we wuz robbed.” Just how they have been wronged does not appear in the record but from the fact that they are defending this action we assume they have a complaint against someone.

Plaintiff, Moffitt Building Material Company, is an Iowa…