Butterfield v. Chaney

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment for plaintiff, a landscaper, against defendant, a home owner. The latter urged that plaintiff was an unlicensed contractor, and as such, had undertaken a “project” 1 aggregating a fixed sum exceeding $1,000, which would avoid the contract -under Utah decisional authority. 2 Thus, he reasons, plaintiff was not exempt as one contracting for a fixed sum less than $1,000. 3 Affirmed, with costs to plaintiff.

In writing defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $893 to put in a retaining wall, patio, and lawn. Thereafter there was some loose but disputatious…