Kelley v. Stevens

A. P. Kelley and W. E. Kelley, partners as the Prairie Lumber Company, commenced this suit against John A. Stevens, to recover $4,943.03 with interest, which they claimed to be due them for lumber and other materials sold' to Stevens and by him used in the construction of a four-story hotel and business *570block in Garden City. The plaintiffs claimed a lien on the property, which they sought to enforce. The petition was filed in the District Court on the twenty-second of November, 1888, but the action was not tried until February, 1894. In the meantime A. P. Kelley died. The case was tried to a…