Sutherland v. Ryerson
Illinois Supreme Court
Defendants in error filed their petition for a mechanics’ lien, in the Cook County Court of Common Pleas. Petition alleges: “ That petitioners are copartners, doing business at Chicago, in the firm name of Ryerson, Miller & Co., in the sale of lumber, and that July 19,1855, they sold and delivered to Augustus F. Buschick, Washington L. Scoville, and Gustavius E. Buschick, a bill of lumber to the amount of $748.17, upon two months’ credit; that said lumber was sold to said…
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Defendants in error filed their petition for a mechanics’ lien, in the Cook County Court of Common Pleas. Petition alleges: “ That petitioners are copartners, doing business at Chicago, in the firm name of Ryerson, Miller & Co., in the sale of lumber, and that July 19,1855, they sold and delivered to Augustus F. Buschick, Washington L. Scoville, and Gustavius E. Buschick, a bill of lumber to the amount of $748.17, upon two months’ credit; that said lumber was sold to said Scoville, Buschick & Co. for the purpose of being used, and was used by them, in erecting certain buildings on a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was a petition filed against Buschick, Scoville and Buschick, by Ryerson, Miller and Morris. The Sutherlands and others were made parties, as having, or claiming to have, liens upon, or some interest in the premises, against which the mechanics’ lien was sought to be enforced. The petition alleges that the complainants had furnished materials to erect a building on the premises, to the amount of seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventeen cents. They also allege that plaintiffs in error claimed to have a mechanics’ lien, for $325.03 upon the premises, but they deny that it is a…
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