Manufacturers & Merchants Co. v. Pyles

On the 26th day of June, 1913, the Julius E. Pyles, Incorporated, a corporation engaged in the construction of buildings, entered into a contract under seal with the board of trustees of the Shiloh Baptist Church, to erect upon a percentage basis a new church at the northwest corner of Clinton .avenue and George street in Baltimore City. It agreed to take down the old church building, and to furnish the necessary labor and materials for the erection of the new church, and to complete the same as speedily as possible. Payment was to be made by the church bi-weekly as the work processed.

On the…