Dermott v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
JoNES, a mason and house-builder, contracted, with Miss Dermott to build a house for her, the soil on which the house , was to be built being her own. The house was to be built. according to very detailed plans and specifications, which the u architect” of Misé Dermott had prepared, and which were made part of the contract.
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JoNES, a mason and house-builder, contracted, with Miss Dermott to build a house for her, the soil on which the house , was to be built being her own. The house was to be built. according to very detailed plans and specifications, which the u architect” of Misé Dermott had prepared, and which were made part of the contract. In the contract, Jones covenanted that he would procure and supply all matters requisite for the execution of the work “ in all its parts and details, and for the complete finish and fitting for use and occupation of all the houses and buildings, and the several apartments…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The defendant in error insists that , all the work he was required to do is set forth in the specifications,'and that, having fulfilled his contract in a workmanlike manner, he is not responsible for defects arising from a cause of which he was ignorant, and which he had no agency in producing.
Without examining the soundness of this proposition, it is sufficient to say that such is not the state of the case. The specifications and the instrument to which they are annexed constitute the contract. They make a- common context, and must be construed together. In that instrument the defendant in…
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