State Ex Rel. Metropolitan Land Co. v. Recorder of Mortgages

John H. Coates, a civil engineer, claiming that the Metropolitan Land Company owed him $4,325 for services rendered in surveying a tract of land belonging to the company, filed his claim in the office of the recorder of mortgages and had it recorded as a lien on the property. Thereafter Coates brought suit on his claim against the land company, averring that the law granted him a lien on the land which he had surveyed, to secure his claim for the services rendered, and prayed for a judgment for the amount of his claim and for recognition of a lien on the land. At the same time he filed in the…