James Black Masonry & Contracting Co. v. National Surety Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered April 29, 1910, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Respondent took a contract for the erection of the Leary Building, in the city of Seattle. He let a subcontract to the Ellis Granite Company, to cut and place all the stone in the first two stories of the building. It was agreed that the entire work should be finished • within one *472hundred and twenty-five days from the date of the contract, which was December 12, 1908. The work was delayed,, through no fault of the Ellis company, for about sixty days,, but was finally finished without any changes or alterations material to tins inquiry- The contract price was $16,500, to-be paid as follows:
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