Legal Opinion

State Sash & Door Manufacturing Co. v. Adams

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 25, 1891PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Two actions to enforce mechanics’ liens, brought in the district court for Hennepin county, and tried by Lochren, J., pursuant to whose findings judgments were entered in each case, establishing a lien in plaintiff’s favor for $282.32, the value of the materials furnished, and costs taxed at $33.38, making $315.65, and directing a sale, etc.

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Two actions to enforce mechanics’ liens, brought in the district court for Hennepin county, and tried by Lochren, J., pursuant to whose findings judgments were entered in each case, establishing a lien in plaintiff’s favor for $282.32, the value of the materials furnished, and costs taxed at $33.38, making $315.65, and directing a sale, etc. Defendants appeal from the' judgments, and also from orders made after their appeals from the judgments were taken, directing amendments of the findings as stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.

Exceedingly loose and careless practice on part of plaintiff’s attorneys in the court below has furnished defendants’ counsel an opportunity to raise numerous points, all of which are purely technical, not going to the real merits of the cases, and none' of them, as we think, well taken. The proceedings in each action are, in substance, the same, except as respects a difference in one of the parties defendant, and in the description of the property affected. Hence both cases may be considered together. They were actions to enforce mechanics’ liens for material furnished by the plaintiff to…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Pratt v. Pioneer Press Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
  2. Grant v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1875
  3. Swanstrom v. MarvinSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Beckett v. Northwestern Masonic Aid Ass'nSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
  2. Gallagher v. Irish-American BankSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
  3. School District No. 3 v. Western Tube Co.Wyoming Supreme Court · 1905
  4. Wold v. WoldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1917
  5. Hurley v. City of West St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901

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