Burton v. Rosemary Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by W. O. Burton against the Rosemary Manufacturing Company, beard by Judge George A. Jones and a jury, at August Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Halifax County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtConnoK, J.
The plaintiff set out in bis' complaint a cause of action upon a special contract, in that “on or about the last day of October, 1900, the plaintiff and defendant entered into an agreement whereby the plaintiff agreed on bis part to personally superintend and direct the erection of a mill, which, the defendant contemplated building on its property near the town of Roanoke Rapids”; that the defendant agreed and promised to pay him therefor a sum to equal six and a half per centum of the cost of the building; that the mill cost the sum of $51,000, and that the amount due him pursuant to the…
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