Hogan v. Nicholson

Morphy J.

Thepetilionerclaims$1318 asabalancedue him undercontract for work and labor done as a carpenter, in the construction of a house belonging to the defendant, for certain extra work executed at the latter’s request, and for putting up two cisterns on the premises. The answer avers that, so far from being indebted to the plaintiff on account of the building of his house, the defendant is entitled to claim of the plaintiff $1500, by reason of the latter’s failure to comply with his contract; that instead of building the house thirty feet square according to the contract, whereby the same…