Whitman's Answer

Whitman's Answer.

Ex-Regent Charles E. Whitman has filed his answer to the bill of Edward Frohlich for material furnished in building his home in which Frohlich seeks to make his claim a lien on the property. He admits that he made a contract with John J. Sheldon and Christian Otto to build his house, that they did not complete the house according to contract, in fact abandoned it, and he, Mr. Whitman, had to complete the building; that he had no knowledge of any supplies being furnished Sheldon & Otto; that he received no notice of any alleged supplies; that during the time when Frohlich alleges that he could not get service he was every day at his home in Ann Arbor. That he did not receive notice and had overpaid Sheldon & Otto and the mortgage of the Farmers & Mechanicts bank was the first lein on the property. The answer is Sworn to by Mr. Whitman before W. W. Zoernisch, a notary public of Chicago.