Reynolds v. Caldwell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Armstrong county, in which this was an action of covenant by Thomas H. Caldwell and PI. J.-Arnold, trading as Thomas PI. Caldwell & Co., against Washington Reynolds and Addison Leech, executors, &c., of David Leech, deceased, tried before the Hon. James Campbell, President of the 18th district.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Armstrong county, in which this was an action of covenant by Thomas H. Caldwell and PI. J.-Arnold, trading as Thomas PI. Caldwell & Co., against Washington Reynolds and Addison Leech, executors, &c., of David Leech, deceased, tried before the Hon. James Campbell, President of the 18th district. David Leech and others having contracted by sealed articles with the Allegheny Yalley Railroad Company to construct the whole railroad of said company, sub-let, also by sealed articles, to the plaintiffs the construction of section 43 of said road. After…
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The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
— This was an action of covenant brought by Caldwell against Leech to recover compensation for the graduation, masonry, and other work done on section 43 of the Allegheny Yalley Railroad. Leech with others had been contractors for the entire work of the line,* and Caldwell was a sub-contractor with them for the work on one section.
The articles of agreement fixed very precisely the mode in which alone the sums due from time to time to the sub-contractor should be ascertained. This it did by reference to the estimates that the railroad company…
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