Case Name: The Raisler Heating Company, Respondent, v. James F. Dowd and Henry Nicholsburg, Doing Business Under the Firm Name of H. Nicholsburg and Company, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-01
Citations: 52 Misc. 656
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Raisler Heating Company, Respondent, v. James F. Dowd and Henry Nicholsburg, Doing Business Under the Firm Name of H. Nicholsburg and Company, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 52
Pages: 656–657

Head Matter:
The Raisler Heating Company, Respondent, v. James F. Dowd and Henry Nicholsburg, Doing Business Under the Firm Name of H. Nicholsburg and Company, Appellants.
Contracts — Interpretation of contracts — Particular agreements — To pay costs of doing job.
Master and servant — Services and compensation — Wages and other remuneration— Agreement to pay costs of doing job.
Appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, sixth district, borough of Manhattan, rendered in favor of the plaintiff.
Blandy, Mooney & Shipman (Laurence A. Sullivan, of counsel), for appellants.
Barnard H. Sandler, for respondent.

Opinion:
Blanchard, J.
.This is an action brought to recover for work, labor and services rendered in pursuance of an agreement to pay the " costs " of doing the job. The situation of the parties tends to show that actual cost was the meaning intended by the word " cost " used in the agreement, and the negotiations of the parties, which were properly admitted in evidence to explain the written agreement, con-, firm this view. Accordingly, judgment could not properly be awarded for an amount which included profit.
Judgment must be reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide the event.
Gildebsleeve and Dayton, JJ., concur.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide event.