Simpson v. City of Marlborough
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for compensation for services as an architect alleged to have been rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant at the request and under agreement with duly authorized agents of the defendant, the declaration containing three counts, of which the third was upon an account annexed. Writ dated November 29, 1915. In the Superior Court the action was heard by Aiken, C. J., without a jury. Material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Contract for compensation for services as an architect alleged to have been rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant at the request and under agreement with duly authorized agents of the defendant, the declaration containing three counts, of which the third was upon an account annexed. Writ dated November 29, 1915. In the Superior Court the action was heard by Aiken, C. J., without a jury. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the defendant asked for the following rulings: “1. On all the evidence, a verdict should be ordered for the defendant. “2. Under…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of contract to recover compensation for services rendered by the plaintiff in preparing plans and specifications for a school house, the erection of which in the defendant city was contemplated in 1915. The city council on June 7, 1915, passed an order for the appointment of a committee consisting of three members of the school committee, the mayor, two aldermen and three members of the common council, “invested with full authority to make contracts, purchase supplies and fittings and superintend the erection of a new school house” with “power to do any and all things…
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