Hattin v. Chase
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. The plaintiff recovered a verdict in the Superior Court, for Kennebec county, for a balance due him under a verbal contract to construct a drain. The defendant alleged exceptions which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is an action of assumpsit to recover a balance alleged to be due from the defendant for the construction of a drain on her farm.
It was not in controversy that the plaintiff dug a drain ninety-one rods long across the defendant’s land and filled it with stones, under an oral contract by which he was to receive a compensation of one dollar per rod, and that in March following the completion of the work in December he received from the defendant the sum of fifty dollars in part payment therefor. At the trial the defendant claimed that by the express terms of the contract the plaintiff…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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