Bennett v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, from a judgment of the Supreme Court' in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 15th day of June, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of July, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiffs, engineers and contractors doing business under the name of the Metropolitan Construction Company, in April, 1891, entered into a writtten contract with the defendant corporation for *364the building of two wells. The material part of this contract reads as follows: “ We agree to put in for you two-wells to furnish station No, 8 at No. 81 Guinett* Street^ Brooklyn, E. D., at the uniform price of $10.00 per 1,000 gallons of water furnished per day of 24 hours. You are to give us free access to your premises fdr our men and tools. It is understood that- after test and…
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