Catlett v. Hawthorne

In 1927, the High Street Baptist Church at Charlottesville, that it might extend its sphere of usefulness, decided to build at, or near, the University of Virginia a new and more ambitious structure for that congregation, and it did after-*375wards build there such a church at a cost approximating $160,000.00. It was of course necessary to place in it lighting fixtures, etc., and to that end the building committee of the church, composed of H. K. Hawthorne, R. Merritte Robinson and others, contracted with the plaintiff to supply them. He did supply and install them in a way entirely satisfactory.…