Pere Marquette Railroad v. Baertz

In the Laporte Superior Court this suit was begun by appellee against appellant and a number of others, to enforce payment of thirty-nine claims for work and labor performed by as many different people in the construction of certain abutments, walls, .bridges and embankments and making excavations, etc., for a roadbed and tracks in the construction of a railroad through Laporte and Porter counties in this State, by the foreclosure of an alleged mechanic’s lien held by appellee, covering appellant’s roadbed and right of way, and appurtenances thereto belonging. The facts leading up to, and…