Langley v. Rouss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Langley, from a judgment of the-Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of' the clerk of the county of Queens on the 2oth day of June, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Queens County Trial Term, and also from ah order-entered in said clerk’s office on the llth day of July, 1902, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff entered into a contract with Charles Broadway Eouss, whereby the plaintiff undertook to perform certain mason and carpenter work on a building to be erected for Mr. Eouss, and in the alteration and extensión of another building owned by him. This action is brought to recover $11,505.30-as the value of extra work, over and above that provided for in the contract, which extra work is alleged to have been performed at the request of Mr. Eouss. Upon the trial, at the close of the evidence on both sides, the complaint was dismissed, and from the judgment entered…
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