Carey-Lombard Lumber Co. v. Jones
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Appellant was petitioner in the circuit court of Cook county to enforce a lien against city lots in Chicago, owned by appellee J. Russell Jones, for lumber furnished to construct certain improvements thereon.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Appellant was petitioner in the circuit court of Cook county to enforce a lien against city lots in Chicago, owned by appellee J. Russell Jones, for lumber furnished to construct certain improvements thereon. Appellee Jones, and Elizabeth, his wife, together with T. C. Kane and David Meyer, were made defendants to the petition. Jones and wife alone answered, and upon replication a hearing was had, resulting in a decree…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
Section 1 of the Mechanic’s Lien law of this State in force June 26, 1895, (Hurd’s Stat. 1897, p. 1034,) provides: “That any person who shall by any contract with the owner of a lot or tract of land, or with one whom such owner has authorized or knowingly permitted to improve the same, furnish or specially manufacture and prepare materials, fixtures, apparatus, or machinery for the purpose of, or in building, altering, repairing or ornamenting any house or other building, * * * shall be known under this act as a contractor, and shall have a lien upon'the whole of such tract of land or lot and…
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