Stannard v. Robert H. Reid & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ambrose B. Stannard, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 3d day of March, 1906, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Hew York Trial Term, the jury having been discharged,. dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff had a contract with the United States government to erect a courthouse and post office building in the city of Elmira. The defendant corporation, through its president, entered into a contract with him to do the marble Avork and lay the floors therein.
This contract specified that the defendant should so prepare the marble, presumably at its factory, for setting, that the entire work might be completed sixty days after notice that the building had so far progressed as to be ready for that part of the work. Before the building had arrived at this stage the- defendant…
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