Angus v. Scully
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, on an account annexed for moving buildings in Cambridge. The answer set up, among other things, non-performance due to the destruction of the building by fire, by reason of the negligence of the plaintiffs. At the trial in the Superior Court before Stevens, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The contract was that the plaintiffs should move a large building belonging to the defendant from a lot on Third Street to a lot on First Street, and also to change the *358location of two other buildings, of which one was on the First Street lot and one on the Third Street lot, and the defendant was to pay them $840.
In accordance with the agreement the plaintiffs began the work. “ They first moved the house on the Third Street lot, and then began to move the large building from the Third Street lot across certain open lots toward the lot on First Street. When said last named building had been…
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