Case Name: LOUIS FRITTS ET AL. v. FRANCIS C. HUSBANDS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1900-06-11
Citations: 65 N.J.L. 72
Docket Number: 
Parties: LOUIS FRITTS ET AL. v. FRANCIS C. HUSBANDS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 72–72

Head Matter:
LOUIS FRITTS ET AL. v. FRANCIS C. HUSBANDS.
Submitted March 26, 1900
Decided June 11, 1900.
In a suit for work done on seventy alarms, it was error in the trial court to refuse to charge, as requested by the defendant, that the plaintiff could not recover if the jury found that the contract was that the defendant was to pay for the alarms when finished, and If they also found that the alarms were not finished.
On error to the Camden Circuit.
Before Depue, Ci-iiee Justice, and Justices Van Syckel and Gummere.
For the plaintiffs, Howard Carrow.
For the defendant, Harrison H. Voorhees.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
This suit was brought to recover for work done by the plaintiffs for defendant on seventy alarms.
There was evidence on the trial below to show that the contract of the defendant was to pay for the alarms $1 each when they were finished.
The defendant requested the trial court to charge the jury that, if that was found to be the contract and if the jury found that the alarms were not finished, there was no liability on the part of the defendant.
The trial judge refused so to charge, and exception was taken, and error is assigned upon such refusal.
The defendant was clearly entitled to have the jury instructed in accordance with this request, and the refusal to .give it is fatal to the judgment. The judgment must be xeversed, with costs.