Court Opinion

ID: 9830864
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:34:26.62898+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:27.829857
License: Public Domain

On Appellant’s Motions for Rehearing and for Additional Findings.
[6] The contention, made when the record was first before us, that the judgment was excessive, is vigorously renewed in the motions. The contention was and is based on a stipulation in the bond that it should “terminate,” quoting, “on the 1st day of August, 1914, on which date this bond shall become null and void,” and on testimony showing that part of the work done by Arendt in making the basement dry as Nichols had agreed to make it was done after August 1, 1914, and that part of the sum paid him by appellee for doing such work was paid to him after that date. We did not- think that was a reason why appellee should not recover as he did, and do not yet think so. What Nichols undertook to do, and appellant guaranteed he would do, was to furnish the material and do the work necessary to be done to make the basement dry and to keep it so for a period of one year. Nichols having failed to do that, appellee was entitled to recover of him the sum it was reasonably necessary to expend to have it done, to wit, $1,046, as shown by the testimony, without reference to whether the work was done and the expenditure made before August 1,1914, or not, and was entitled to recover of appellant the $978 it bound itself to pay in the event of such failure .on Nichols’ part.
The motions are overruled.