Menard v. McCarthy

The plaintiffs are building contractors. The defendant is an electrical contractor. The plaintiffs hired the defendant to install electrical service in a house the plaintiffs were building on a lot of land they owned in Hubbardston. Before the house was fully completed, it burned down. The plaintiffs brought this action for damages alleging that the fire had been caused by the defendant’s failure to install the electrical service in a good and workmanlike manner, in violation of the contract of hiring (Count I), and by the defendant’s negligence (Count II). A jury awarded the plaintiffs…