Mayor & Council of Borough of Vineland v. Fowler Waste Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

The plaintiff-appellee, during a period of two years, rendered monthly bills to the defendant-appellant for electric current supplied the latter for motive power, &c., in its cotton waste' factory at Vineland, which bills were duly paid and receipted. It was then discovered that through a *343mistake on the part of the plaintiff’s chief electrician in failing to multiply the meter face-readings by ten, the bills so rendered and paid were for only one-tenth of the amount actually due by the defendant to the plaintiff. This suit is for the other…