Lawler v. Zapletal

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

Plaintiff brought suit against the defendants in the Chancery Court for Davidson County, Tennessee, and alleged that defendants had breached an agreement between the parties “by failing and refusing to pay the Plaintiff” sums due and owing under the agreement. At the beginning of trial plaintiff was allowed to amend to seek, in the alternative, recovery on the basis of “unjust enrichment.”

Defendants denied that they owed plaintiff any sums and filed a counterclaim in' which they alleged that plaintiff breached his contractual obligations to defendants and sought damages…