Murray v. Americare-Medical Designs, Inc.
Murray v. Americare-Medical Designs, Inc.
Opinion of the Court
1. Counsel for the appellant requested a charge to the jury in the language of the second headnote of Brown v. Glass, 46 Ga. App. 323 (167 SE 722). Counsel for appellee objected to this portion of the case being excerpted, and counsel for appellant then said: "Of course, I don’t mind the entire case
2. It appears from the record that the cabinets ordered for the building were built by a company referred to as "Art-Fab” pursuant to a purchase order from "Design and Drafting Service,” a branch of the plaintiff corporation. The statement of Depperman, president of the plaintiff, that he was paid for doing shop drawings for this work does not establish that the contract was void because a "dual agency” existed, as contended.
3. The defendant, Dr. Murray, desirous of erecting a medical building, entered into a contract with an Iowa corporation presently named Americare-Medical Designs, Inc., under which it furnished plans and agreed to "Procure contracts and purchase orders, to build the building as per the plans. . . Consultant will supervise construction and all payments from owner to contractors and suppliers will be made only upon consultant’s written approval. . . Consultant agrees to take prices from contractors and suppliers and deliver to the owner a set of construction contract proposals and purchase orders totalling not in excess of $80,000, exclusive of consultant’s fee.” Defendant eventually had the building finished by other persons at a total cost in excess of $80,000. The fee agreed to be paid to the plaintiff for the services and plans was $5,000, half of which was paid in advance. Plaintiff eventually sued the defendant for the balance of the fee, travel expenses, certain extras not included in the contract, and two orders of cabinet work and hardware which it had purchased from third parties, obligated itself to pay for, had delivered to the site, and acceptance of which had been refused by the defendant, totaling $17,920. The jury found against the defendant’s counterclaim and entered a verdict of $16,012 in favor of the plaintiff.
In general, the items were contested but each was supported by
The judgment is affirmed on condition that the plaintiff write off from the verdict and judgment the sum of $3,000 travel expenses claimed for supervising construction. Otherwise the judgment is reversed and a new trial ordered.
070rehearing
On Motion for Rehearing.
The appellant strongly contends on re-hearing that proof of the legal obligation of the plaintiff to pay for cabinet and hardware orders it had placed for the benefit of the defendant does not entitle it to recover these amounts in the absence of evidence of actual damages, which cannot be ascertained without proof of the market value of these items. The evidence shows that the cabinet work was shipped on sight draft and was rejected by the defendant. The evidence is in conflict as to whether its admitted flaws resulted from poor construction, from damage in transit, or both. The defendant rejected the manufacturer’s tender of repair and replacement. Where these cabinets are now does not appear, nor their value. Such evidence as there is as to the present location of the hardware, also, is hearsay. Since this is not an action between buyer and seller, the provisions of § 2-703 of the Uniform Commercial Code cannot be directly applied, and the measure of damages might vary according to the remedy thereafter chosen by the seller. It is obvious, however, that when this defendant pays off the judgment against him representing damages equivalent to the purchase price of the casework and hardware he becomes by that fact the owner of the merchandise and entitled to whatever value
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