Holland Furnace Co. v. Rounds

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of the eighth judicial district, Cascade County, entered on a verdict in favor of defendant in an action brought by plaintiff on an express contract in writing.

Defendant, Fannie Rounds, was 67, a widow, and in ill health. She lived in an eleven room, two-story house which she owned in Great Falls, Montana. On February 17, 1959, the blower unit on defendant’s furnace ceased to operate and the temperature in the upper rooms in her house dropped from 10 to 15 degrees. At…