Hood Construction Corp. v. Clark-Randolph Property, Inc.

Defendant appeals from a judgment for $545 entered on the finding of the court in an action on a written contract which provides for the installation "by plaintiff of a 1200-gallon oil tank under the sidewalk adjacent to the defendant’s premises located at 145 North Clark Street in the City of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois.

While the plaintiff was installing the oil tank under the sidewalk in the space formerly occupied by a coalbin, a controversy arose between the parties about the location of the air-vent pipe from the oil tank. It is uncontroverted that notwithstanding defendant’s…