American Oil Co. v. Ratliff's Sheet Metal Works

The appellees, Ratliff’s Sheet Metal Works and other materialmen and laborers, exhibited their bill in the chancery court of Lincoln county against the appellant American Oil Company, Lee McD'avitt, and the First National Bank .of Bróokhaven, Mississippi, seeking to recover from the American Oil Company, upon a contract for the erection of a garage entered into by it, as owner, and Lee MeDavitt, as contractor and builder, the cost of material and labor furnished therefor.

The contract price was ten thousand twenty-three dollars and thirty-seven cents, for which price MeDavitt was to furnish…