Burgess v. Grooms

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Appellant, plaintiff below, sued for the value of electrical fixtures he had installed in defendants’ home. He alleged that defendants were building a house under a direct contract with a builder, Allen J. Lloyd; that Lloyd sub-contracted to him the electrical wiring work to be done there; but that defendants directly obligated themselves to pay him for certain fixtures installed in the house.

The trial court ordered judgment for defendants on the grounds that plaintiff had not sustained the burden of proving that he had a direct contract with defendants for the…