Court Opinion

ID: 9577870
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:39:01.197993+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:21:23.896995
License: Public Domain

Higgins, J.,
dissenting: I agree that error was committed in the course of the trial. However, I am of the opinion that the evidence fails to show a contract of guaranty on the part of the defendant that the cost of building plaintiff’s home would not exceed $46,500. To my mind the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff shows nothing more than that the defendant, as architect, merely estimated the cost of the structure. The evidence shows too many changes in plans during the progress of the work, without any corresponding change in the cost estimate, to permit the inference the defendant had agreed to underwrite the cost estimate originally made.
The case goes back for a new trial. The Court’s opinion will be the law of the case. For that reason I record my belief that defendant’s assignment of error No. 14 should be sustained and judgment of nonsuit entered.