Lamoreaux v. Weisman
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for Hennepin county by the partners doing business as Long, Lamoreaux & Long to recover $3,900 as architects’ fees. The answer was a general denial. . The case was tried before Dickinson, J., who when plaintiffs rested denied defendants’ motions for a directed verdict and a jury which returned a verdict for $2,760. From an order denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Defendants were the owners of a longtime leasehold in Minneapolis, and planned to erect a business block thereon. Plaintiffs, a firm of architects, claim that about May 6,1915, they were employed by defendants, for an agreed compensation of $100, to make sketches for such proposed building and procure estimates of the probable cost of erecting the same; that such sketches were made and estimates procured previous to May 13, 1915; that on the last named date it was agreed that plaintiffs were to make full working plans and specifications for the shell of the building sketched, procure bids…
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