57 Fla. 383 | Fla. | 1909
The appellees as complainants below filed their bill in equity in the Circuit Court of Hillsborough county against the appellant as defendant below to foreclose a builder’s lien for the erection of an artificial stone building in the city of West Tampa claiming in said bill a balance unpaid of $1,010. The defendant answered the bill admitting all of its allegations except that it denied that the complainants had constructed his building according to the contract between them or in a
No questions of law are presented, and the propriety of the decree appealed from is dependent entirely upon the facts in proof. There is a large volume of evidence submitted in the cause, and there is much conflict therein, but as no useful purpose can be subserved by the statement of even a synopsis thereof, it is sufficient for us to say that we have carefuly considered all of it pro and con, and have come to the conclusion that the chancellor below in the decree appealed from has done substantial justice and equity between the parties, and the said decree is, therefore, hereby affirmed at the cost of the appellant. For the same reasons there was no error in the denial of the petition for rehearing.