Southeastern Builders, Inc. of Alabama v. Joe Brashears Steel, Inc.

SMITH, Judge.

The general contractor for construction of a Sears Roebuck building in Pensacola refused to pay for structural steel furnished the project. The supplier sued the contractor and the court directed a verdict for the supplier in the amount of the contract price. The jury’s verdict added the amount of certain disputed extras. The contractor asserts on appeal that the trial court erred in directing a verdict for the contract price of $41,374.41 and in refusing to permit the jury to assess, as a setoff reducing its liability to the supplier, the contractor’s damages sustained as a…