West Haven Water Co. v. Redfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for damages for the breach of a contract to build a reservoir for the plaintiff company, the claim being that it was constructed in so negligent and unskillful a manner as not to be water-tight, as required by the contract; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County.
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Action for damages for the breach of a contract to build a reservoir for the plaintiff company, the claim being that it was constructed in so negligent and unskillful a manner as not to be water-tight, as required by the contract; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The facts were found by a committee, and after sundry proceedings which, in the view of the case taken by this court, become unimportant, the court (Phelps, J.,') rendered judgment for the defendants to recover a balance due on the contract. The plaintiffs appealed. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.
The several reasons of appeal in this case relate to the decision of the court upon questions of evidence arising under the third defense to the action, and the decision that the written contract be reformed as prayed for in that defense. We do not think that it is necessary to examine these questions, because we think that the court rendered the proper judgment in the ease if we should assume, as we certainly do not, that it erred in the particulars specified in the reasons of appeal.
■ By the original contract between the parties the defendants agreed to build the reservoir provided for by…
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