Allen v. Bowman

This is an action brought in a justice’s court to recover $60 “for sketches and preliminary studies on dwelling-house” made by the plaintiff as an architect. The plaintiff, learning that the defendant was about to build a house, solicited from the defendant the superintendence, as an architect, of the building intehded, calling on the defendant and having interviews with him, at which the defendant talked of the cost of the building, etc. The defendant went to the plaintiff’s office on one occasion, when the plaintiff made a sketch for such a house as the defendant described. Sketches of…