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23 Ill. 646

Stein v. Schultz

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1860

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1860-01-15

Schultz filed his petition to enforce a mechanics’ lien for building a barn for Stein. The contract alleged in petition is as follows, to wit: “ That by the terms of said contract, said Stein was to furnish all the materials for said building, and your petitioner'was to put up the same for the sum of one hundred and eighty-five dollars. One hundred and twenty-four dollars of said sum to be paid on the first day of January, A. D. 1858.

Decided 1860-01-15

Caton, C. J.

¶1This was a petition for a mechanics’ lien, under our statute. The petition avers that by virtue of a contract between the parties, the complainant was to build for the defendant a barn, for one hundred and eighty-five dollars, and that the work was to be completed by the sixth day of January, 1857.

¶2- The proof shows, beyond all controversy, that the price fixed by the contract for building the barn, was one hundred and twenty-five dollars. This was a fatal variance between the contract on which the suit was brought, and the one shown by the proof on the trial.

¶3There was another fatal variance between the contract set up in the petition, and the one in proof. By the first the barn was to be completed by the 6th of January, 1857, while the proof was, that it should be completed by the 1st of March, 1857.

¶4The decree of the Circuit Court must be reversed, and the suit remanded.

¶5Decree reversed.

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