Weber v. Bushnell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the Superior Court of Cook county in a proceeding brought by defendants in error, Milton B. and Carl C. Bushnell, against plaintiff in error, Otto E. Weber, to enforce a mechanic’s lien.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the Superior Court of Cook county in a proceeding brought by defendants in error, Milton B. and Carl C. Bushnell, against plaintiff in error, Otto E. Weber, to enforce a mechanic’s lien. It appears from the evidence found in the record that plaintiff in error had leased for a term of ninety-nine years certain premises in Chicago,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
It appears from the record that Otto E. Weber was the owner of a leasehold on the south-west corner of Warren and Hoyne avenues, in the city of Chicago, and entered into a contract October 4, 1894, with the complainants, Bushnell & Bushnell, for the erection of an apartment house according to drawings and specifications made by Dinwiddie & Newberry, architects, for the agreed price named in the contract of $40,000, to be paid upon written certificates to be issued by said architects as the work progressed, not exceeding eighty-five per cent. March 5, 1895, the contractors, Bushnell &…
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