Vinal v. Inhabitants of Nahant
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by an architect against the town of Nahant to recover the sum of $4,200, being the amount claimed as a commission at the rate of six per cent upon an estimate of $70,000 for the erection of a town hall for the defendant under a vote of the town passed on March 18, 1911, to erect a town hall at a cost not to exceed $75,000 according to plans and designs submitted by the plaintiff and under a contract made in pursuance of such vote, of which the plaintiff was deprived…
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Contract by an architect against the town of Nahant to recover the sum of $4,200, being the amount claimed as a commission at the rate of six per cent upon an estimate of $70,000 for the erection of a town hall for the defendant under a vote of the town passed on March 18, 1911, to erect a town hall at a cost not to exceed $75,000 according to plans and designs submitted by the plaintiff and under a contract made in pursuance of such vote, of which the plaintiff was deprived by reason of the alleged breach of the contract by the defendant. Writ dated February 20, 1913. In the Superior Court…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This case was tried before a judge of the Superior Court without a jury. He found certain facts, granted and refused divers requests for rulings of law, subject to exception, and made a general finding for the defendant. There is a full report of the evidence. The findings of fact made by the court below are not open to revision in this court. The general finding for the defendant imports a finding of all the incidental facts essential to that conclusion. The correctness of rulings and decisions in matters of law to which exceptions were saved alone is open here. Schendel v. Stevenson, 153…
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