Ciminelli v. Umland Brothers, Inc.

Plaintiffs paid to defendant $559 to put upon their building a new three-ply asphalt roof, guaranteed for five years. Plaintiffs gave proof that the roof, immediately after it was installed, leaked badly in many places; that defendant, after demand, refused to make it right, and that the roof was so defective that an entirely new roof was the only effective and economical remedy. Plaintiffs then gave another contractor $630 to apply another roof of the same general character but guaranteed for ten years, which was laid upon the roof installed by defendant. The City Court of Buffalo gave…