Shively v. Hettinger

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a suit brought by appellee, as plaintiff, against the appellants, as defendants, to recover upon what the evidence tended to show was a special contract for the making of plans and specifications by the appellee, as an architect, for a building proposed to be erected by the appellants. •

The only information which the abstract furnishes concerning the declaration, is that in one place it speaks of a “journal entry of order granting leave to file new declaration in lieu of lost declaration,” and in another place it…