Dean v. Connecticut Tobacco Corporation
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover a balance alleged to be due upon a building contract, and also the reasonable worth of extra work and materials, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Holcomb, Jverdict finding the issues for the plaintiffs upon their complaint, and for the defendant upon its counterclaim, and awarding the plaintiff $4,584, from the judgment upon which, and from the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict, the defendant…
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Action to recover a balance alleged to be due upon a building contract, and also the reasonable worth of extra work and materials, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Holcomb, Jverdict finding the issues for the plaintiffs upon their complaint, and for the defendant upon its counterclaim, and awarding the plaintiff $4,584, from the judgment upon which, and from the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict, the defendant appealed. The original plaintiffs, building contractors, and the defendant, a tobacco grower, entered into a written contract…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The reasons of appeal impute error to the trial court in its denial of the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict as contrary to the evidence and excessive and to grant a new trial. The argument by which this conclusion is reached rests upon the primary proposition that an analysis of the pleadings, charge and verdict, discloses that no greater award than $1,143.06 was made by the jury upon its counterclaims, one of which alleged nonperformance of the contract in certain respects. This proposition is not disputed. The next step in the argument is the assertion that the allowance of so…
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- Tingley v. CutlerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1828
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