145 Mo. App. 497 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1909
This áction was instituted to enforce a mechanic’s lien against property in the city of St. Louis. Plaintiff, a lumber company in said city, sold and furnished material to defendant. Ware for the erection of dwelling houses on the premises in question, in which the other defendants are interested in one way or another. A single question is presented for decision: Whether the description in the lien statement of the material furnished satisfied the statute. The lien account, as filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, declared the lienor, Wilson-Reheis-Rolfes Lumber Company, with a view to avail itself of the statute relating to mechanic’s liens, filed “the account below set forth for work and labor done, and lumber and millwork, hardware and materials furnished by it under one contract with, and at the special instance and request of, W. M. Ware, upon, to and for the buildings and improvements described as follows,” describing them and the lots whereon they stood, and stating the interest of the other defendants in the premises. After those matters had been set out, it was declared all the interests of the several owners of the property were subject to plaintiff’s demand for a lien in the sum of $1070.12. An itemized account then followed in the statement and this account, which aat.11 be more particularly de
Feet Pcs. Size Lgth. Description Price Amount
4267 200 2x8 16 No. 1. Y. P. Jun. 19, ’07 24'.00 103.41
1499 1x6 Y. P. Dr. Sdg. Jul. 3, ’07 31.00 46.47
500 100 1x6 10 Com. Dr. Sdg. Jul. 8, ’07 331.00 15.50
These descriptions are criticised on the ground that the owners of the premises, or other parties interested, could not ascertain from them the kinds of materials furnished; as it is nowhere described as lumber. It is argued a person would not know whether
The judgment is affirmed.