Andrews v. Haller Wall Paper Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action of assumpsit. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The plaintiff, William F. Andrews, appellee here, brought this suit against the defendant, the Haller Wall Paper Company, for the sum of $122.20 alleged to be due on a verbal contract entered into with the defendant to paper and repair certain rooms in the Raleigh hotel in this city.
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Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action of assumpsit. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The plaintiff, William F. Andrews, appellee here, brought this suit against the defendant, the Haller Wall Paper Company, for the sum of $122.20 alleged to be due on a verbal contract entered into with the defendant to paper and repair certain rooms in the Raleigh hotel in this city. The work Was completed in December, 1906, and on January 17, 1907, plaintiff rendered an itemized bill to defendant for the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Robb
The first assignment of error relates to the admission in evidence of the books of account of plaintiff. The objection being general, we will not consider it here. The specific ground of objection should have been stated. W. T. Walker Furniture Co. w. Dyson, present term [ante, 90].
The other exceptions, are embraced in the general proposition that the court erred in declining to allow the rejected prayers of the defendant to the effect, that if, from the evidence, the jury believed that the defendant intended the check sent by him to the plaintiff to be a compromise and final settlement of…
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