Myers v. Forbes
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The appellant filed her bill in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, alleging as follows : “ That your oratrix’s late husband, Charles Myers, her now testator, in his life time, to wit: on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1860, entered into a contract with a certain James S. Forbes, carpenter of said city, to do and perform the carpenter’s work in and about a certain warehouse which he, the said Charles' Myers, was at that…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The appellant filed her bill in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, alleging as follows : “ That your oratrix’s late husband, Charles Myers, her now testator, in his life time, to wit: on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1860, entered into a contract with a certain James S. Forbes, carpenter of said city, to do and perform the carpenter’s work in and about a certain warehouse which he, the said Charles' Myers, was at that time about to build, at the corner of South street and Exchange Place in said city ; that by the terms of said contract,…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
The hill in this case was filed by the appellant to compel the specific performance of a contract made by the appellee with the complainant’s testator, and also to enjoin the appellee from further proceedings under a scire facias, on a mechanic’s lien. The contract is in these words :
“ I hereby agree to do the carpenter’s work on the warehouse about to be built for Charles Myers, on the corner of South street and Exchange Place, at sixty-one per cent, off carpenter’s full measurement price, the work to be approved of by the architect.
“ In consideration of the above contract, I hereby agree to…
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