Few v. Adams

This is a suit by a firm of mechanics and materialmen against both the owner of real estate and the holder of security deeds thereon, to recover the cost of materials furnished. While the petition indicates that one of the purposes of the proceeding was to establish a materialman’s special lien against the property improved, and the proceeding is so treated in the briefs of counsel, the averments support and the petition prays for a general judgment against each of the defendants, as well as the setting up of a special lien against the property. The petition not only avers that the holder of…