Booe v. Shadrick

PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiff assigns error to the exclusion of the testimony of the witness Arthur Cogswell, the supervising architect on each of the construction projects involved here, concerning the reputation of the defendant Shadrick. On voir dire, Cogswell testified that defendant Shadrick had a reputation of being “rather hard on subcontractors” in that he schemed to take advantage of small unsophisticated contractors by signing them on to do a much larger project than they normally handle and then blaming them for cost overruns and delays. Plaintiff contends that this testimony should have…