Legal Opinion

St. Peter's Catholic Church v. Vannote

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided February 2, 1904PublishedCited by 11 opinions

On bill of interpleader, filed by the complainant, who owed a portion of the contract price for building a church, against which, portion retainers have been filed by laborers and materialmen.

1Opinion of the Court

Reed, V. C.

On May 20th, 1901, there was filed in the cleric’s office of Ocean county a contract between St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and Newbury & Son. By the terms of this contract G. A. Newbury and W. T. Newbury, trading as Newbury & Son, for the sum of $12,800, were, to the satisfaction of an architect, acting as agent of the owner, to perform all the work and provide all materials mentioned in the specifications annexed to the contract for the erection of a church. The price was to be paid in monthly installments upon the certificate of the architect of the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Kelly v. . BloomingdaleNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
  2. City of St. Louis v. O'Neil Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
  3. McChesney v. City of SyracuseNew York Supreme Court · 1894

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Board of Water Com'rs of City of DunkirkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
  2. Stulz-Sickles Co. v. Fredburn Constr. Corp.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1933
  3. Pratt Lumber Co. v. T. H. Gill Co.District Court, E.D. North Carolina · 1922
  4. Mfg. Co. v. . BlaylockSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1926
  5. Bd. of Education of Elizabeth v. ZincNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1927

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