Case ID: ill_81/html/0498-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Scott", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph Drew et al. v. John Mason et al.
    
    Mechanic’s lien—-for lightning rod. The statute does not give a lien to a party furnishing the materials and placing a lightning rod on a house, as this is neither building, altering, repairing, nor ornamenting the same.
    Appeal from the Oircuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Lyman Lacey, Judge, presiding.
    
      This was a petition, by the appellants, against the appellees, to enforce a mechanic’s lien, for a lightning rod put upon a building. The court below sustained a demurrer to the petition, and dismissed the bill.
    Mr. O. H. Wright, for the appellants.
    Mr. S. C. Conwell, and Messrs. Dearborn & Campbell, for the appellees.
   Mr. Chief Justice Scott

delivered the opinion of the Court:

Furnishing materials and labor in placing a lightning rod on a house, is not furnishing materials and labor “in building, altering, repairing or ornamenting ” a house, in the sense those terms are used in the Mechanic’s Lien Law.

The decree will be affirmed.

Decree affirmed.