Stange v. Wilson
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the value of certain iron work made under a contract. The declaration was upon the common counts. Judgment was-rendered for plaintiff. In the course of the plaintiff’s evidence, it appeared that said work was done under a special contract in writing, signed by both parties, and which was introduced.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the value of certain iron work made under a contract. The declaration was upon the common counts. Judgment was-rendered for plaintiff. In the course of the plaintiff’s evidence, it appeared that said work was done under a special contract in writing, signed by both parties, and which was introduced. It was in the following words: “ This agreement, made this 18th day of September, 1866, between J. B. Wilson, iounder and machinist, of the City of Detroit, County of Wayne, State of Michigan, of the first part, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.
"Wilson sued Stange for the value of certain iron work, which turned out on the trial to have been furnished under a written contract, containing only an agreement that Wilson should make “all the iron work, consisting of wrought and cast iron, according to plans furnished by C. W. Lloyd, architect, for Detroit and Milwaukee Railway Depot, for and in consideration of the sum of §5,0.00.” The time of furnishing the iron was not referred to, and the timé of payment was also left in blank. The only question properly *346presented by the record is, whether certain testimony was properly…
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