Orman v. Crystal River Railway Co.

Orman & Crook contracted with The Crystal River Railroad Company, in September, 1892, to construct certain parts of the road. When the work was done, there remained due a little upwards of thirty thousand dollars out of the total contract price of some two hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars which the company had agreed to pay. The company failed to pay, and on the 4th of October, 1898, the contractors filed a lien statement with the clerk and recorder of the counties through which the road ran. On the 9th of March, 1894, they brought this suit to enforce the lien. They named the…