Case Name: Joseph Drew et al. v. John Mason et al.
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1876-01
Citations: 81 Ill. 498
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joseph Drew et al. v. John Mason et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 498–499

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.