Court Opinion

ID: 9865738
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 19:49:50.455577+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:51:34.132511
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION POR REHEARING.
AILSHIE, J.
— The petition for rehearing urges that the opinion of the court amounts to a holding that “where delays are occasioned by reason of extra work ordered done by the owner or architect, this of itself waives the provision in the contract fixing the time for the completion of the building.” Such is not the holding of the court, and we fail to find anything in the opinion that leaves it open to the construction respondent suggests. We hold that the facts of this case show that the owner and its agent have by their actions and conduct in these transactions waived the requirement that applications for extensions be made in writing within twenty-four hours after the happening of the event which demands the extension. We also hold that evidence tending to establish the fact of waiver was admissible. Delays in construction of a building caused by the owner or architect do not necessarily, of themselves, constitute a waiver of any part of the contract to be complied with by the contractor. They may subject the owner to liabilities for a breach of the contract and under the peculiar circumstances of the particular ease, such as the one at bar, tend to establish the fact of a waiver.
The petition for a rehearing will be denied, and it is so offered.
Stockslager, C. J., and Sullivan, J., concur.