174 Ind. 164 | Ind. | 1910
Appellee recovered a judgment for $1,-000 for services, and a decree foreclosing a statutory lien therefor upon appellant’s corporate property. It is alleged that the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s motions to strike out a part of the complaint and for a new trial, and in stating the second conclusion of law upon the special facts found.
Appellee’s right to a lien upon appellant’s property is based upon the act in force July 2, 1877 (Acts 1877 [s. s.] p. 27, §§8288-8293 Burns 1908.) The complaint alleges that appellant is a corporation doing business in Warren county, and that it is indebted to appellee in the sum of $873.88, for work and labor performed and for services rendered by him, as shown by a bill of particulars filed as exhibit A, and that said sum is due and unpaid.
This declaration is followed by the averments with respect to a lien, which appellant moved to strike out, to wit: “That on November 17 plaintiff filed in the office of the recorder of said Warren county a notice of his intention to hold a lien against the property and earnings of said defendant, which property was then and there situated in said Warren county, and said notice set out therein the amount due for service, the date of said service, the name of defendant, and was signed by plaintiff, and said notice was duly recorded in the records of said county, in miscellaneous record No. —, at page — thereof; * * * that a reasonable attorney’s fee for enforcing the lien of plaintiff for said amount due to him and collecting it is $100. ’ ’
The complaint contains no description, either general or
The judgment is reversed, with directions to sustain appellant’s motion to strike out parts of the complaint, and for further proceedings.