Watson v. Gardner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A.' Moban, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A.' Moban, Judge, presiding. Freeland B. Gardner obtained a lease, from the heirs-at-law of George Manierre, deceased, of lot 1, in block 8, of fractional section 15, addition to Chicago, to run from November 1, A. D. 1871, to November 1, A. D. 1881. The lease contained, among others, this clause: “And at the end of said first five years, to-wit, on the first day of November, A. D. 1876, the said premises shall be valued by three disinterested persons,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice. Scholfield
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The rulings of the Appellate Court questioned by the argument on behalf of appellants, are, first, that inasmuch as the petition for mechanic’s lien, before amendment, only prayed that it be enforced against Freeland B. Gardner’s leasehold interest in lot 1, and the building thereon, it can not be regarded as a proceeding pending against lot 4 at 'the time that the mortgage was executed to White, and the several deeds were executed to Goodrich, and by Goodrich to Alva Bradley and Alvira Cobb, and hence, as to those parties, the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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