Legal Opinion

Hub Machine, Welding & Contracting Co v. Loux

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 13, 1917No. Appeal, No. 405PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 105, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1913, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Hub Machine, Welding & Contracting Co. v. Franklin W. Loux and Eugene C. Loux, trading as Loux Sons. Assumpsit on a book account for repairs to automobile trucks.

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Appeal, No. 105, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1913, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Hub Machine, Welding & Contracting Co. v. Franklin W. Loux and Eugene C. Loux, trading as Loux Sons. Assumpsit on a book account for repairs to automobile trucks. Before Shoemaker, J. At the trial the defendants produced testimony tending to show that the time charged in the book accounts for the repairs claimed was exorbitant and excessive. The court admitted under objection and exception a number of time slips, one of which was as follows: TIME…

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Henderson, J.,

The plaintiff established a prima facie case by its book account to which the defendants replied. A part of the defense related to the time consumed by the plaintiff’s employees in performing the work compensation for which comprised a large part of the claim. In rebuttal *599the plaintiff offered the time slips made by the several workmen who had been employed on the different jobs for the defendants and the admission of this evidence is made the subject of the first assignment of error. These slips were made daily soon after the work was done, were signed by the…

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  1. Mellott v. MellottSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1914

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