Iowa Electric Light & Power Co. v. Hopp

On June 16, 1931, plaintiff entered into a written contract with tbe defendants, being a standard form of agreement between contractor and owner for construction of buildings, issued by tbe American Institute of Architects, for the construction of a power bouse at Toledo, Iowa. There was also a second agreement for tbe erection of a pump bouse and oil unloading pit. When tbe construction work was all completed, tbe defendants owed certain materialmen for material which went into tbe construction, and these accounts were assigned to plaintiff, upon which accounts it is conceded there was due…