Smith v. Kennedy

Citations

• 89 Ill. 485

Syllabus

<p>1. Mechanic’s men—improving street. The statute gives no lien on a lot for curbing, grading and paving the street in front of the same, though done under contract with the owner of the lot. It is given only for labor and materials furnished for the “building, altering, repairing or ornamenting any house or other building or appurtenance thereto.”</p> <p>2. Same—-agreement to give a lien. If a party seeks to enforce a lien upon a lot, for labor and materials furnished in the improvement of a street bounding the same, under a contract with the owner of the lot that he shall have such lien, he must show in his bill or petition that such agreement was in writing, as no verbal agreement to that effect can be enforced, when the statute fails to give a lien.</p>