Boston Steel & Iron Co. v. Steuer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for $1,823.25 for work done and materials furnished for a building of the defendant numbered 811 on Beacon Street in Boston. Writ dated April 11, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court before Bishop, J., without a jury, the judge excluded certain evidence offered by the defendant and refused to make certain rulings requested by the defendant. He found for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,043.86 ; and the defendant alleged exceptions. '
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The only question in issue between the parties in this case is the right of the defendant to be credited with two sums of $200 and $400, respectively, under the following circumstances.
Oñ December 31, 1898, the defendant’s husband owed the plaintiff $1,781.30, for iron work furnished by it to him in the construction of a house number 819 Beacon Street. On being pressed for payment, the defendant’s husband, on January 21, 1899, delivered to the plaintiff the defendant’s check for $200, payable to the plaintiff. It is stated in the bill of exceptions that on February 2,1899, “ he paid the…
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