Hillsburg v. Harrison

This suit is about two coats and the right of a tailor to assert a lien for the contract price of making them. Ever since the representatives of the craft assembled in Tooley street, the deliberations of the trade have attracted world-wide attention, and the solution of their disputes have required the application and settlement of the gravest and most complicated doctrines. The present is no exception to the gen*299eral course of history. The peculiar circumstances and proven facts of this difficulty seem to require a novel application of possibly familiar and thoroughly settled rules of law,…