German Bank v. Schloth
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Dubuque Circuit Covnrt. Action in chancery to enforce a mechanic’s lien. The owner of the ’property, a mortgagee, and certain lien-holders, were made defendants. The lien of the intervenor for a part of the amount claimed was enforced by the decree, but made inferior to the mortgage and the other -liens. The intervenor and the owner of the property appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The German Bank filed the original petition in the case, alleging that it was the transferee of certain promissory notes, given by the owners of the property to the persons furnishing the machinery and materials used in constructing an oatmeal mill upon the lots which are charged in the lien. The circumstances under which the notes were executed and transferred, and the claim for a lien filed, will be hereafter stated.
The lot owners, Schloth and others, Charles Stafford, a mortgagee of the property, Burch, Babcock & Co., who held a claim for a mechanic’s lien for lumber used in the…
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