Weiland Tool & Manufacturing Co. v. Whitney

The present appeal, arising from a judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Cook County on a trial of the counterclaim raised by Hexarmour Company and Emerson C. Whitney to the original complaint of Weiland Tool & Manufacturing Company, represents the culmination of a twelve-year history of litigation. Plaintiff and counter-defendant will be referred to herein as “Weiland,” and defendants and counterplaintiffs will be referred to collectively as “Whitney.”

Action in this matter was initiated in August of 1956 by Weiland to foreclose a common-law lien upon certain machinery delivered to Weiland…