Legal Opinion

Chicago Brick Co. v. McLester

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 20, 1911No. Gen. No. 15,984Published

Mechanic’s lien. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Julian W. Mack, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1909.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Baldwin

delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 4th of December, 1906, appellee, the Chicago Brick Company, filed its petition for a mechanics ’ lien against certain real estate owned by appellants. The South Side Lumber Company and William Downs, respectively, became parties to the proceeding by answers and intervening petitions, and set up their own respective claims for mechanics’ liens upon the same property. Other intervening petitions filed in the case were dismissed in the court below, and are not involved in this appeal.

The intervening petitioners, the South…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Paulsen v. ManskeIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
  2. Carey-Lombard Lumber Co. v. JonesIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
  3. Sorg v. CrandallIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
  4. Steigleman v. McBrideIllinois Supreme Court · 1855
  5. Monarch Brewing Co. v. WolfordIllinois Supreme Court · 1899

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