Lawrence v. Mayor of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, James Y. Lawrence, as surviving partner of the firm of Lawrence Brothers, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 7th day of January, 1898, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The subject of inquiry in this case is, whether the plaintiff’s assignors were entitled to be paid under the contract set forth in the complaint, for 727 cubic yards of cut stone masonry, or only for 64 cubic yards thereof. On a construction of all the material parts of the contract relating to that subject, the court below held that the plaintiff could recover only for the 64 cubic yards. *299The contract was entered into between the plaintiff’s assignors and the department of public works of the city of New York, and related to the building of an arch in connection with the Croton…
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