Winslow Elevator & MacHine Co. v. Hoffman
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Sharp, J.) Plaintiff's 2nd Prayer. — If the jury find for the plaintiffs, that they may consider in estimating the damages to which they may find the plaintiffs are entitled, the reasonable cost to the plaintiffs for installing an elevator of the kind to be furnished by the defendant, and the cost of the reasonable and necessary repairs expended by the plaintiffs on the elevator installed by the defendant in their efforts to…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Sharp, J.) Plaintiff's 2nd Prayer. — If the jury find for the plaintiffs, that they may consider in estimating the damages to which they may find the plaintiffs are entitled, the reasonable cost to the plaintiffs for installing an elevator of the kind to be furnished by the defendant, and the cost of the reasonable and necessary repairs expended by the plaintiffs on the elevator installed by the defendant in their efforts to make it operate (if the jury so find), together with the sum of money the jury may find was paid by the plaintiffs to…
1Opinion of the CourtBurke, J.
The appellees, in August 1904, began the erection upon their lot number 11 East Lexington street, a six-story office building. This building was completed and occupied about the first of April, 1905. On the 7th day of October, 1904, the parties to this appeal entered into a contract by which the appellant, the Winslow Elevator and Machine Company, in consideration of the sum of sixteen hundred dollars, agreed to furnish and erect in a workmanlike and substantial manner in said office building one electric combined passenger and freight elevator in accordance with certain specifications set…
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