Alexander v. Neal

This is a matter of statutory interpretation. Our State has a statute “to provide for the licensing and rights of any person to engage in business as a residential builder [defined in section 2] or residential maintenance and alteration contractor [also defined in section 2] in certain counties.” The plaintiff is characterized by the trial judge as a “residential contractor” and it is not denied that he had not secured a license to so act. The question in the case is whether, lacking such license, he may maintain an action for the cost of a new roof. The trial court held not. “The plaintiff,”…