Pike Electric Co. v. Richardson Drug Co.

This action is brought to recover the reasonable value of certain labor and materials, furnished by the plaintiff to the defendant under the written contract below set out. The action is not brought to recover the price named in the contract, because, before the contract was completed by the plaintiff, and while it was in process of completion, the premises of the defendant were destroyed by an accidental fire, consuming all the materials which, by the terms of the contract, the plaintiff had agreed ,to furnish, and rendering valueless the labor already done thereunder. The contract in…