T. S. McShane Co. v. Great Lakes Pipe Line Co.

This is an action at law upon two contracts alleged to have been entered into by the defendant, Great Lakes Pipe Line Company, with the plaintiff, T. S. McShane Co., Inc., for the rental of a dragline and a clamshell bucket. The jury returned a verdict for $1,887.50 for rentals found to be due under the provisions of the dragline contract and for $222 for the rentals due under the clamshell-bucket contract. Judgment was entered for these amounts and the defendant appeals.

The evidence shows that the defendant undertook to. extend and enlarge its pipe-line terminal in Omaha at an estimated cost…