Bledsoe v. Gonzales County

Texas Supreme Court
Bledsoe v. Gonzales County, 31 Tex. 636 (Tex. 1869)
Morrill

Bledsoe v. Gonzales County

Opinion of the Court

Morrill, 0. J.

—Suit by the defendants in error against the plaintiffs and others for violation of a contract for the erection of a court-house, and judgment for $2,000.

The only error assigned and relied on is, that the- plaintiffs were permitted to prove by Darst and Grayson the cost of finishing the court-house agreeably to specification, instead of Payne, the architect.

The contract specified that the work was to be done to the satisfaction of Charles Payne, the architect, and to be testified by a writing under the hand of Payne. The non-*638production of this certificate of Payne furnishes one of the causes of action. The appeal appears to have been taken for delay. ■

Aeeirmed with damages.

Reference

Full Case Name
Benton Bledsoe v. Gonzales County
Status
Published
Syllabus
Where the defendant objected to a witness, to prove damages in not finishing work according to contract, on the ground that an architect was to determine the measure of damages, and the architect had not been called, but the contract only stipulated that the payments should be made on the certificate of the architect that he approved the work, the objection to the evidence was not well taken.