Schneider v. Kolthoff

— This was an action by the appellant, Conrad P. Schneider, against Henry Kolthoff’ and his wife, Gottlieb Berner, executor of Gottfried Zeyher, deceased, and John C. Cress, to enforce a mechanic’s lieu.

The complaint was in several paragraphs, which were all alike in respect to the points on which the case must be decided.

It appears by the complaint, that materials were furnished, and work and labor done, by the plaintiff’, to and for the deceased, Zeyher, in his lifetime, in the erection of a house upon a described lot. Zeyher afterward conveyed the lot to Kolthoff’, and Cress was made a…