Green v. Farrar Lumber Co.

Mrs. Green filed an equitable petition against Jones and others, in which she alleged that she had made a contract with Jones to erect a dwelling-house at a cost of $1,100 ; that the house was completed with the exception, of several small items mentioned in the petition; that, after deducting what she had paid on the contract and the reasonable cost of completing the house, there was still due Jones $183.40, which she asked that she might pay into court, in order that Jones and the other defendants might determine in what proportion they were entitled to the same. The case came on to be…