Rose v. Eunice Electric Theatre Co.

The Eunice Electric Theatre Company desired to construct a brick building, on two lots owned by it, in the town of Eunice, the building, when constructed, to be used for theatrical and mercantile purposes. The company did not let a contract for its construction as a whole, but undertook to do the work, without such a contract, through a firm of architects and a foreman and purchasing agent employed by it. The architects were not only to prepare the plans and specifications, but were employed also to advise in the letting of contracts for labor and material, and to render certain general…