Dorr v. Stewart
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Galveston County. This was a suit brought by Stewart, the plaintiff in the court below, to recover of the defendant, Dorr, damages for an alleged breach of contract entered into between them on the 15th day of February, 1847, by which the plaintiff agreed to do the carpenter’s work on a brick store, for Dorr, and furnish materials for the same. The brick work was to be done by ¥m. B. ISTichols.
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— Appeal from Galveston County. This was a suit brought by Stewart, the plaintiff in the court below, to recover of the defendant, Dorr, damages for an alleged breach of contract entered into between them on the 15th day of February, 1847, by which the plaintiff agreed to do the carpenter’s work on a brick store, for Dorr, and furnish materials for the same. The brick work was to be done by ¥m. B. ISTichols. The mutual agreement of the said parties, in relation to the terms, and the time and manner of the completion of said work, are contained in the following provisions embraced in said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lipscomb
In this case suit was brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for a breach of covenant. It was for carpenter’s work, to be done and performed by Stewart on a brick building about to be erected for the appellant in the city of .Galveston. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in the court below7, from which the appellant took an appeal to this court. There has been sent up to this court a great mass of testimony embodied in the statement of facts; and the pertinency of much of it to the issue is not perceived. Leaving, however, a statement of the case to…
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