Marchetti v. Sleeper

The demurrer might better have been addressed to the special defense raised by the answer, than to the complaint, for the complaint contains no averment as to character of the plaintiffs’ services, and the defense that an architect’s services are not lienable, could not properly be raised in that way. But since that issue of law is necessarily determined by the judgment, and nobody makes any objection to the form in which it is presented by the appeal, we will decide the point.

Whether an architect’s claim for services rendered in the preparation of plans and specifications and in supervising…