Walsh v. Campbell

Soihe confusion is created in marshaling the different payments by reason of the plaintiff having credited on account of the contract one payment of $300 which should have been *747credited on account of extra work, because the receipt itself states that it was a payment on account of such .extra work. The result, however, is in nowise changed; for, if we credit it, as it should have been, to extra work, it would make a payment of $300 less on account of the contract, so that the balance due on the contract, instead of being $72.94, should have been $372.94. And although the plaintiff states that…