Mackler v. Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Railroad

Plaintiffs allege that Charles Pardesky contracted with the St. Joseph Lead Company for the construction of a railroad belonging to the defendant; that, in the making of said contract, said St. Joseph Lead Company acted as agent or trustee of defendant; *678that plaintiffs, under a contract with said Pardesky, performed work and labor in constructing said railroad from the ninth of January, 188.9, to the fifteenth of. April, 1889; that this work was done in constructing that part of the roadbed of said railroad between station 639, plus fifty, and station 687, plus sixty; and that the work so…