Brown v. Smith

KING, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether or not the trial court was correct in finding a contract between the parties and in awarding damages for breach of that contract.

Leroy and Dorothy Brown, husband and wife (hereinafter plaintiffs), orally contracted with Percy Smith (hereinafter defendant) to build an addition onto their home and to make improvements therein. The majority of the work was to be renovations and addition of a new room to plaintiffs’ existing home with a new roof for the addition. Claiming faulty construction and unsatisfactory performance, the plaintiffs…