Murphy v. N. H. Warren & Co.

Ragan, 0.

George M. Murphy brought in the district court of Saline county a suit against N. H. Warren & Co. and the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, an Illinois corporation. Murphy claimed in his petition that about May 1, 1891, Warren & Co. were the owners of a grain elevator situate in the city of Crete; that in pursuance of an oral contract with them of that date he furnished certain labor and material for the repair of that elevator, and for which there was due him from Warren & Co. a certain sum of money. He prayed for a decree awarding him a mechanic’s lien upon the elevator for the sum…