Campbell v. Evens & Howard Sewer Pipe Co.

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an action by Neal J. Campbell, a professional architect, to recover the reasonable value of services rendered by him in engineering, planning, drafting plans and specifications and procuring bids and estimates for the erection and construction of a dryer building for a sewer pipe company. A trial jury awarded plaintiff $6,500 but the trial judge set aside the verdict and judgment and granted a new trial. Plaintiff has appealed from that order.

The first question is whether the trial judge committed error in granting a new trial “on the ground that the court erred…