Rauch v. Scholl & Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
March 20th 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew and Sharswood, JJ. Williams, J., at Nisi Prius. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county: No. 179, to July Term 1870. Charles W. Rauch, on the 5th of June 1868, brought an action of assumpsit against Henry Miller and William Scholl, and declared in the common counts. The pleas were non assumpsit and set-off.
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March 20th 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew and Sharswood, JJ. Williams, J., at Nisi Prius. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county: No. 179, to July Term 1870. Charles W. Rauch, on the 5th of June 1868, brought an action of assumpsit against Henry Miller and William Scholl, and declared in the common counts. The pleas were non assumpsit and set-off. The plaintiff owned building-stone quarries, and entered into a contract with John Biglin to furnish stone for the erection of a bridge; the price the plaintiff received for the stone from Biglin was $2.15 per yard. He…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
The plaintiff in error, who was the plaintiff below, furnished to John Biglin, the contractor for building a *235bridge, stone from a quarry owned by him at $2.15 per cubic yard. He made a contract with the defendants to quarry and haul these stones to the bridge, and alleged that he had overpaid them. He testified that they had undertaken to do this work at $1.75 per cubic yard. They alleged, on the other hand, that the contract price was $2 per cubic yard. The defendants were examined, and their testimony certainly sustained their…
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