Kaye v. Bank of Louisville

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Kaye and Laws, partners in the business of plastering, in the City of Louisville, having performed the stucco work and plain plastering in the banking house of the defendants, in the years 1836 and 1837; and the parties not having been able to agree on the price of the work, after its completion, the Bank offered to pay three thousand dollars in full, for the work and materials. Laws, one of the partners, accepted one half of this sum in full of his half of the demand. But Kaye, claiming that they were entitled to a much larger sum, refused to…