Hoyt v. Pomeroy
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover, for work and labor and material furnished pursuant to a building contract, also to recover for certain items of extra work and labor, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and referred to a committee who heard the parties and reported the facts; the court, Burpee, J., accepted the original and supplemental reports, overruled a remonstrance thereto filed by the defendant, and rendered judgment for the plaintiff for $2,943, from which the…
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Action to recover, for work and labor and material furnished pursuant to a building contract, also to recover for certain items of extra work and labor, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and referred to a committee who heard the parties and reported the facts; the court, Burpee, J., accepted the original and supplemental reports, overruled a remonstrance thereto filed by the defendant, and rendered judgment for the plaintiff for $2,943, from which the defendant appealed. No error.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
The plaintiff is a builder, and contracted in writing with the defendant to - build a house for him. The complaint alleges that on the day of May, 1906, the plaintiff began to perform his part of the contract and so continued until September 11th, 1906/ when the defendant refused to permit the plaintiff to finish his part of the contract, and took from the plaintiff the plans and details of the buildings mentioned in the contract, and gave to him a formal notice that he must cease work upon the building; that at this time there was due to the plaintiff for work and materials furnished in…
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- Geary v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1903
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