Lawson v. Hobbs
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for plaintiff.. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The facts, so far as they are necessary in order to determine the question here involved, are, that the plaintiff in error, Lawson, was a contractor, and while engaged in doing certain paving work on the streets of Norfolk under a contract with the city subjecting him to heavy penalties for every day’s delay beyond the day agreed on for the completion of his contract, had the engine with which he was performing his work to break down so completely as to be incapable of repair. This occurred on Wednesday, October 20, 1915. Negotiations previously begun were thereupon concluded with the…
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