Lord Electric Co. v. Morrill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on an account annexed against the lessee for twenty-five years of the Jewelers Building, so called, on the corner of Washington and Bromfield Streets in Boston, to recover for putting in additional electric lights and wires not included in a written contract between the plaintiff and the trustees of that building.
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Contract on an account annexed against the lessee for twenty-five years of the Jewelers Building, so called, on the corner of Washington and Bromfield Streets in Boston, to recover for putting in additional electric lights and wires not included in a written contract between the plaintiff and the trustees of that building. Writ dated July 19, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sheldon, J., one Driscoll, a witness for the plaintiff, testified that he was the plaintiff’s bookkeeper, and that he remembered having a conversation over the telephone with the defendant. He was then…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is an action to recover of the defendant his share of the expense of certain electrical work done by the plaintiff in a building called the Jewelers Building on the corner of Washington and Bromfield Streets in Boston. There was a verdict for the plaintiff, and the case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to the refusal of the court to rule that on the pleadings and evidence the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, to the admission of a conversation over the telephone with the defendant, and to the judge’s charge.
1. As to the conversation over the telephone, the witness-testified…
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