Pickel v. St. Louis Chamber of Commerce Ass'n

This case is here on appeal from the judgment of the St. Louis court of appeals. It is a suit on a note for $5,000, executed by defendant to plaintiffs, June 20th, 1876, and payable one day after date. The defense was a counter-claim for alleged delays in the stone-work, which plaintiffs agreed to perform on the Chamber of Commerce building in the city of St. Louis, under a written agreement, by which a fixed sum per day was to be allowed by plaintiffs to defendant for delays. After the completion of the building the architects under the agreement stated *66the account between the plaintiffs and…