MacKay v. Benjamin Franklin R. & H. Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Wauling,

The Continental Hotel stood on the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, and, about 1920, a company was orgnaized to take over the property and erect on the site a new, modern hotel. With this end in view the company sought the services of Frederick Webber, an architect, to prepare preliminary plans for the proposed hotel, which he did. Webber died in 1921, and the project was temporarily abandoned, but early in 1923 a new corporation, the defendant, was formed and the project of building a new hotel on that site, to-wit, the present…