Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1886

Harney v. Shaw

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 22, 1886 · Allen

141 Mass. 340; 5 N.E. 823; 1886 Mass. LEXIS 202

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Boston Gas Co. v. Assessors of Boston (Mass. 1956)

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Opinion of the Court

C. Allen, J.

We do not understand from the bill of exceptions that the plaintiff offered direct testimony of experienced builders, acquainted with the work embraced in the alleged subcontract, to show that the price named was much below a fair price for that work. Their opinion of value was tó be based on *342an estimate of the necessary amount of lumber, which itself, so far as we can see, was an uncertain element. This was too remote. The case does not fall within the principle of the decisions cited for the plaintiff.

Exceptions overruled.

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