Cockle Separator Manufacturing Co. v. Clark

On the 4th day of April, 1887, William Dickman filed a petition against S. W. Clark and others, in the district-court of Adams county, to foreclose a mechanic’s lien on certain mill property in the village of Juniata. A summons was duly issued and served on the defendants, requiring them to answer on the 9th day of May, 1887. Clark was the principal debtor, the other defendants being supposed to have some claim upon the real estate sought to be affected. The ease was afterwards dismissed as to Dil worth and Smith.

On the 23d day of June, 1887, the Cockle Separator Manufacturing Co., one of the…