Beattie v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract, and also for extra labor and material, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Williams, ./.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiffs, who were the executors of the original plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The correction of the finding is the main purpose of this appeal. In most of the particulars in which the finding is complained of, its facts were found upon conflicting evidence, and hence are conclusive. ‘ '
The cáse was one of - great antiquity; it was tried twenty-three years after the plaintiffs’ testator had completed the contract now sued upon; the plaintiffs relied to prove their case upon a few memoranda of their testator, and the testimony of his son, a boy fifteen years of age when the contract was begun and seventeen when it was completed, — testimony which involved an…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Stanton v. New York & Eastern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
- Brett v. CooneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- Watson v. New Milford Water Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Dewire v. HanleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
- Michael v. CurtisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
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- Riccio v. AbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
- Crowell v. PalmerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1948
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