Richard Construction Co. v. Monongahela & Ohio Dredging Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

MARSH, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Richard Construction Company, Inc., sued the defendant, Monongahela and Ohio Dredging Company, for the breach of a contract to transport for $300 plaintiff’s one-story frame building from the bank of the Monongahela River near Maxwell Dam to a point on the same bank approximately seven miles up that navigable river at Rice’s Landing near Old Lock No. 6. The defendant contracted to move the building but damaged it in the process, and failed to deliver it at the agreed destination. The plaintiff contends that the damage was caused by the…