McNulty v. Keyser Office Building Co.

This is an action of assumpsit brought by the appellant against the appellee to recover the sum of $1,200 for plastering certain beams in the office building of the defendant. The declaration contained only the common counts, to which the general issue was pleaded and the only exception taken in the case was to the granting of a prayer offered by the defendant, at the close of the plaintiff’s testimony, instructing the jury “that no legally sufficient evidence had been offered to show that Wyatt and Nolting, the architects, were authorized to bind the defendant by any contract or agreement…