Johnson v. Labarge

The plaintiff brought this action to recover $1,500 damages, alleged to have been caused by the failure of the defendants properly to perform a contract, whereby they had agreed with the plaintiff to shore up the east wall of a certain house belonging to the plaintiff. The answer, after a general denial, set up, as a counterclaim, the right to recover of the plaintiff the sum of $150, the contract price of performing the work; and also another counterclaim for $5.20, upon which last counterclaim no question arises. The plaintiff, by a reply, controverted the right of the defendants to…