Wharton Bros. & Co. v. Douglas & Son
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 303. Scire facias sur mechanics’ lien by W. Douglas & Son against Wharton Bros. & Co., in right of the Boatmens’ Fire and Marine Insurance Company. About 1863 Wharton Bros. & Co., erected the Ormsby Iron Works in the borough of East Birmingham, now a part of the city of Pittsburgh.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 303. Scire facias sur mechanics’ lien by W. Douglas & Son against Wharton Bros. & Co., in right of the Boatmens’ Fire and Marine Insurance Company. About 1863 Wharton Bros. & Co., erected the Ormsby Iron Works in the borough of East Birmingham, now a part of the city of Pittsburgh. The works at first consisted of a rolling-mill ninety by one hundred and twenty feet, to which additions were built at various times prior to 1873, until it had a front on Twenty-fifth street of one hundred and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
W. Douglas & Son, the plaintiffs below, filed their mechanics’ lien “ against all that certain frame one-story iron mill or building situate in the-ward of the city of Pittsburgh, in the county aforesaid, and described as follows : Being situated on the northwest corner of Wharton and Twenty-fifth street, in the-■ ward of the city of Pittsburgh. Having a front on Twenty-fifth street of about one hundred and fifty feet, and a depth along Wharton street of about two hundred feet, with a one-story frame back building between said main building and Water street, about forty by sixty feet in size.…
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