Serlin v. Pacific Industrial Furnace Co.

In 1963 and 1964, plaintiff Irwin Serlin, doing business as Serlin Electrical Service, installed the wiring for two furnaces at $2,100 each under a contract with defendant Pacific Industrial Furnace Company. Defendant approved plaintiff’s work, and when the job was near completion offered plaintiff an oral contract to install two additional furnaces at the same price. The second contract is the subject of this litigation.

Before beginning work plaintiff realized that the wiring would be more costly because defendant wanted to use ducts instead of conduits and to place the furnaces further from…