Edison General Electric Co. v. Blount

Lumpkin, Justice.

1. Quite a number of questions arose in this case, with which we deem it unnecessary to deal specifically, for the reason that upon the really material facts, and in *273view of a few very simple and well recognized legal principles, the defense set up to the plaintiff’s action was clearly not maintainable."

Blount and others contracted with the Edison General Electric Company for the construction of an electrict light plant. Under the terms of the contract, one half of the price was to be paid before the work was completed, and the remaining half sixty days after the “starting of…