[DOWNLOAD] "First Unitarian Society of Chicago v. Faulkner Et Al." by United States Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: First Unitarian Society of Chicago v. Faulkner Et Al.
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1875
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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Services were rendered by the plaintiffs, as architects, in making plans and designs, and in furnishing drawings, specifications, and estimates for the corporation defendants, preparatory to the erection and completion of a church-edifice for their religious society. Annexed to the declaration is a bill of particulars, setting forth the claim of the plaintiffs, which is as follows:–– For services as architects in making designs, plans, drawings, specifications, and estimates for a church-building, with basement, to cost seventy-eight thousand dollars......................... $2,730.00 For second design and drawings, showing the elevation of the church-building, with chapel in rear, and tower between the church and chapel, to cost seventy thousand dollars............................ 700.00 For modification of the above design, with chapel in rear, and tower at angle of the church, to cost seventy thousand dollars................... 700.00 For design of church with basement, but without tower, to cost forty thousand dollars..... 400.00 $4,530.00 Due service was made, and the defendants appeared and pleaded that they never promised in manner and form as alleged in the declaration. Issue being joined, the parties went to trial; and the verdict was for the plaintiffs, in the sum of $3,862.50, part of which was subsequently remitted, and judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs in the sum of $2,900. Exceptions were duly filed by the defendants to the rulings and instructions of the court, and they sued out the present writ of error. Enough appears in the transcript to show that the plaintiffs were partners, seeking employment as architects, and that the firm was represented in all the negotiations reported in the bill of exceptions by the junior member of the firm. Testimony was given by him at the trial, tending to prove that the plaintiffs, at the request of the defendants, had submitted plans to the latter for a church-edifice, in competition with other architects, for the examination and choice of those composing the defendant corporation. Evidence was also offered by the plaintiffs, consisting of the testimony of the same witness, tending to prove conversations between him and the pastor of the church, and of the action of the plaintiffs in consequence thereof; and they also offered his testimony in evidence tending to show statements and admissions purporting to have been made by the pastor, in relation to the employment of the plaintiffs by the defendants as architects, at a social meeting of the church: to all of which the defendants objected, because no evidence had been given tending to show that the pastor was, in any sense, the agent of the defendants, or that he had any authority to act for them in relation to the employment of the plaintiffs as architects.