Independent School District v. Mardis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes,. Judge. Of the contract price for the construction of a high school building, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars was withheld by the plaintiff, and this action was brought to require the defendants, except the contractor, to interplead and establish their claims against said fund.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes,. Judge. Of the contract price for the construction of a high school building, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars was withheld by the plaintiff, and this action was brought to require the defendants, except the contractor, to interplead and establish their claims against said fund. Decree was entered applying it pro rata on the claims of J. A. G-arver & Oo., J. K. & W. H. Gilcrest, Dunreath Quarry Company, Iowa Brick Company, and St. John & Barquist, and any balance remaining on that of the People’s Savings Bank of Des Moines. The…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
1 Eighty-five per centum of the cost of the construction of the high school building was paid on certificates of the superintendent as the work progressed. The remaining fifteen per centum, or three thousand six hundred and forty dollars, was to be paid, under the contract, “in thirty days after the satisfactory completion and acceptance of the work herein named; provided, however, in case of any notice to the party of the second part of any claim for mechanics’ liens for labor or material furnished by subcontractors or others, or in case any such labor or materials remain unpaid for by the…
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