81 Ill. 498
Decided January 15, 1876
Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1876-01-15
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.
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Decided 1876-01-15
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1997
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¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:
¶2Furnishing 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.
¶3The decree will be affirmed.
¶4Decree affirmed.