McConnell v. Frost

This action involves the right of various laborers and other lienholders to foreclose their respective liens on a cyclorama depicting the battle of Gettysburg, together with the building located on the State Fairgrounds of Dallas, in which the cyclorama was housed.

The Cyclorama Exposition Committee, Inc., a corporation, which will be hereafter referred to as the committee, held a concession from the State Fair of Texas for the exhibition of the cyclorama known as the “Battle of Gettysburg.” It entered into a contract with E. W. McConnell, the owner of the cyclorama, by which the committee…