Tayloe v. T. & S. Sandiford

delivered tlié opinion of the Court.. .

This is. a writ of error to. a judgment of the Circuit Court of the county of Alexandria, rendered in . án action of assumpsit, brought by T. 81 S. Sandiford against John' Tayloe. It appeared ,qn. the trial of the cause, that on the 13th of May, 1816, the parties entered into a written., contract,. by which the defendants in error undertook to build for the plaintiff three houses on the Pennsylvania avenue in the city of Washington. On the 18th , , . ,. ■ day of the same month, the parties entered into a contract, under seal, for the building of three…