King Lumber Co. v. National Bank of Summers

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

The question to be decided in this action for breach of contract is whether the District Judge was right in directing a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the transaction between plaintiff and defendant did not constitute a contract. Plaintiff and defendant signed on August 11, 1920, a paper, in the standard form of a builder’s contract, purporting to be an agreement for the construction of a bank building by plaintiff for defendant. There was no description of the building, except that contained in the following clause and the letter to which it refers:

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