Irving v. Bond

Ames, C.

Appellants Bond and wife owned a dwelling house property in Omaha, and entered into a contract with the ap-pellee Irving, a contractor, for the making by the latter of certain changes and repairs of and upon the building. The language of the contract, which is in writing, is not well chosen and is somewhat ambiguous, but we think that a fair interpretation of it is that appellants were to pay Irving for his services and materials to be furnished under the instrument the sum of. $1,225, of which $225 was to he paid in cash, and the remaining $1,000 *294by a conveyance to him of a certain…