New York Court of Appeals, 1848

Sherman v. Mayor

Sherman v. Mayor
New York Court of Appeals · Decided June 15, 1848
4 How. Pr. 442

Sherman v. Mayor

Opinion of the Court

This was a question, whether under a written contract to pay seven cents per cubic yard for executing the digging and refilling, the lowest price for excavating common earth, the contractor who executed the work, could charge more than the contract price, where it appeared that a portion of the digging was through hard-pan and rock, and worth much more per cubic yard. Held, that the contract price must govern. (Reported, 1 Comstock, 316.)

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