Martin v. Roberts

Gould, Chief Justice.

The object of this suit was to enforce a mechanic’s lien on a school building, in the town of Cooper, for carpenter’s work on said building, alleged to have been done under a written contract between plaintiff and defendants, trustees for the citizens of Cooper. On the trial plaintiff proved that the defendants, having been selected as trustees for the citizens of Cooper, with power to contract for the erection of a school building, and having accepted the trust and taken up a subscription, advertised for bids for the mechanical work, giving full description of the…