Court Opinion

ID: 8076931
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 12:43:47.132464+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:16.542351
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
The action was brought to recover the sum of $450 as balance due for work, labor, and services under a written contract and for $25 for extra work. The defendants counterclaimed $500 damages for breach of contract. The justice found for the defendants in the sum of $32.72 damages and costs. Plaintiff appeals.
The contract was for tile work. The defendants claimed that plain*769tiff’s work was improperly done. The court apparently allowed both plaintiff’s claim and the defendants’ counterclaim, giving judgment for the difference in favor of defendants. The latter claim that they are tearing up the work done by plaintiff and doing it over again. They told plaintiff, if he would finish his work, they would pay him, but that he did not do so. An expert tile setter 'says the work was improperly done by plaintiff, and he estimated the cost of doing the work over at $300. For what the'additional $200 were allowed by the justice on defendants’ counterclaim does not appear. While we do not wish to pass upon the weight of conflicting evidence, it seems to us that the ends of justice would be best served by allowing a new trial.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant abide the event.