Freeman v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attachment and Garnishment, from Meriwether Superior Court. Tried before Judge Bull, at February Term, 1857. James'C. Freeman sued out an attachment, returnable to the Superior Court of Meriwether county, against David S. 'Campbell, for the sum of five hundred and fifty-two dollars.
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Attachment and Garnishment, from Meriwether Superior Court. Tried before Judge Bull, at February Term, 1857. James'C. Freeman sued out an attachment, returnable to the Superior Court of Meriwether county, against David S. 'Campbell, for the sum of five hundred and fifty-two dollars. The Greenville Masonic Lodge, No. 57, was served with summons of garnishment The garnishee, by its committee, answered, setting forth that they employed, by written agreement, the defendant Campbell, to. build a Masonic Female College, in the town of Greenville. That by the terms of said agreement, Campbell was to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
Is it the meaning of the contract, that Campbell was to do the work as one job, for one sum, or as five jobs, for five sums ? That he was to build the house and furnish the materials, (masonry materials excepted,) as one job, for $2,650, or that he was to frame and raise the house as one job, for $500; to enclose and roof the house as a second job, for $500; to lay the floors and set the partitions as a third job, for $500; to put up the ceiling and do the remainder of the carpenter’s work, as a fourth job, for $500; to paint the house and…
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