Cameron-Schroth-Cameron Co. v. Geseke
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Grorgb B. Watkins, Judge, presiding. The Cameron-Schroth-Cameron Company, plaintiff in error, brought its action in the 'municipal court of Chicago against the Chicago Telephone Company, defendant in error, and John J. Geselce and Malcom Doud, co-partners, doing business as Geseke & Doud, to recover as a sub-contractor under Geseke & Doud for materials furnished them, as original contractors, in the construction of a…
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Writ or Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Grorgb B. Watkins, Judge, presiding. The Cameron-Schroth-Cameron Company, plaintiff in error, brought its action in the 'municipal court of Chicago against the Chicago Telephone Company, defendant in error, and John J. Geselce and Malcom Doud, co-partners, doing business as Geseke & Doud, to recover as a sub-contractor under Geseke & Doud for materials furnished them, as original contractors, in the construction of a building for defendant in error and for a lien upon the premises of defendant in error. The cause was heard by the court…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The constitutionality of section 21 of the Mechanic’s Lien law of 1903, as applied to a subcontractor, where the original contract waives the lien created by the statute or the lien has been released by the original contractor before the lien of the sub-contractor has attached, was fully considered in the case of Kelly v. Johnson, (ante, p. 135,) and it was there held that a sub-contractor’s lien can only exist by virtue of the original contract, and in case the original contract provides there shall be no lien on the improved property for material or labor furnished by the…
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