Bishop v. Honey

This action was brought in the Galveston County Court. Honey, the plaintiff below, sued upon a written contract' with Bishop, the defendant. It appears from the contract that Honey undertook to build a house for Bishop. She agreed to pay him five hundred dollars on the third day of November, 1867, and a like sum monthly until the payment amounted to $4500. The contract was recorded in the clerk’s office of the county. The mechanics’ lien was provided for in the contract between the parties.

It appears that the lot on which the house was to be built belonged to John Brown, but his co-appellant,…