Jones v. Woodbury

Jones employed Woodbury, a carpenter, to build for him a framed house, the different apartments and dimensions of which were exhibited in a ground plan, and Woodbury agreed to perform the work for the price of $600 or $650, to be paid by the conveyance of a certain lot in the town of Paducah, estimated at the value of $800, the excess to be accounted for in carpenter’s work. This agreement was verbal only. Whether there was or was not a memorandum at the foot of this, ground plan, indicating that the work was to be done in a neat, plain, workmanlike manner, this might be implied as a term of…