Burrell v. New York & Saginaw Solar Salt Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
This is a ease made, after judgment, in the Saginaw Circuit for review by the Supreme Court. The action was assumpsit brought to recover damages under a contract, by reason of the defendants preventing its fulfillment.
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This is a ease made, after judgment, in the Saginaw Circuit for review by the Supreme Court. The action was assumpsit brought to recover damages under a contract, by reason of the defendants preventing its fulfillment. The declaration contained a special count, setting out the written contract and averring in general terms that plaintiff agreed to construct for defendants 2,600 salt vats and covers for the sum of $13 each; that defendants agreed to furnish certain materials, &c.; that the parties entered upon the performance of their contract; that defendants failed to furnish and deliver…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover in this suit the damages which he has sustained by not being allowed to fulfill a contract made with the defendants, under which he was to construct for them twenty-six hundred salt vats and covers on their premises upon Saginaw river. The case comes before us for a review upon the facts, and the only question of law involved in the case is, whether the evidence given by the plaintiff to show damage was properly admitted.
By the contract the defendants were to furnish and deliver on their dock the materials for said vats and covers, as fast as the same…
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