Serber v. McLaughlin

Counsel for appellee in their brief present the reason for appellee’s not fulfilling his contract, substantially as follows :

“ The main facts are an agreement by defendant to pay plaintiff $480 for furnishing material and labor, and plastering certain premises. This was a verbal agreement, made in October, 1899. McLaughlin got ready to do the job, saw the wholesale and retail men, purchased some one bundred and thirty-five bushels of lime, the hair, and com■pleted his contract Avith the lumbermen for the lath; also had his horses and scaffolding, hauled some eight loads on the premises, lime…