Fell v. Newberry

This is an action of assumpsit to recover for work and labor performed in repairing a shingle mill for the defendant, and to recover as damages prospective profits which plaintiff claims he might have made if he had been permitted to run the mill for six months under a parol contract made with the defendant.

The contract, as stated by the plaintiff, is as follows:

“The arrangement was that I was to go up to Germfask, and see to getting the mill into running order, and, after it was ready to run, I was to run the mill by the thousand, for six months. I was to hire my own help, and he was to pay…