Regoli v. Stevenson

VICTOR E. SHAW, J., pro tem.

Plaintiff sued defendant for the breach of a written contract whereby it is alleged the latter, for a specified sum per foot, agreed to bore a well on plaintiff’s land in section 22, to a depth of 250 feet. Defendant denied the allegations of the complaint essential to plaintiff’s recovery, and, by a separate pleading, alleged the making of an. oral contract with plaintiff to bore a well on land other than that owned by plaintiff in section 22, for which plaintiff agreed to pay him the reasonable value of his services, alleged to he $350, and upon which defendant…