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  "id": 5169456,
  "name": "Robert G. Barrett, Jr., v. Archibald Campbell",
  "name_abbreviation": "Barrett v. Campbell",
  "decision_date": "1896-03-31",
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  "first_page": "330",
  "last_page": "333",
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      "Robert G. Barrett, Jr., v. Archibald Campbell."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Shepard\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThe parties contracted together, whereby the defendant in error agreed to erect and complete for the plaintiff in error a certain two-story frame residence, for the price of $3,700.\nTwenty-six hundred dollars was paid, and suit in covenant was brought to recover the remaining $1,100, with interest from November 12, 1892, which was the alleged date of the completion of the contract; and the cause, coming on for trial before a jury, resulted in a verdict and judgment for $960.\nTwo objections to the judgment are urged upon our consideration, one of which relates to the admitting in evidence of a certain architect\u2019s certificate, and the holding of the court as to its effect, and the other to an insufficient allowance being made because of defective work and materials done and furnished.\nWhether or not the certificate was a final one, in the sense of being one that was authorized by the terms of the contract to be issued by the architect upon the completion of the job, and as such was the only certificate that could, by the terms of the contract, be conclusive evidence of the performance of the contract, we are relieved from deciding.\nThere was on the trial no controversy as to the fact of the contract price of $3,700, nor of the payment of $2,600 on account of performance, nor but that the balance of $1,100, which was the sum specified in the certificate as the amount of payment due, remained unpaid, according to the contract.\nThere was no holding by the court, either in the rejection of offered evidence, or in the instructions that were given, that the certificate was conclusive evidence of the performance of the contract, but on the other hand, all the evidence offered by the plaintiff in error that tended to show incomplete and defective performance, was admitted to the jury and was doubtless given full weight by them, for by their verdict it is shown that they allowed to the plaintiff in error, on that account, nearly $300 from the amount claimed.\nThe face of the certificate Avas for $1,100, and the ATerdict and judgment Avere for $960, at a date more than \u00edavo years after the certificate was given.\nWe do not need to go far to ascertain upon Avhat particular evidence the jury reached their conclusion, for by the testimony of an architect called by, and testifying in behalf of, the plaintiff in error, and Avho, at his request, made a detailed examination of the building in connection with the plans and specifications, the total deficiencies between the Avork as done, and that called for by the plans and specifications, aggregated the sum of $139.65.\nAnother Avitness, an architect also, Avho made a detailed examination of the building in connection Avith the plans and specifications, and testified in behalf of the plaintiff in error, placed his estimate, made up in detail, at the sum of $331, as necessary to put the building in the condition required.\nl\u00edo other Avitness for the plaintiff in error, so far as Ave have been able to discover, testified as to the difference in money value between the building as constructed and as it should have been.\nThe jury were, therefore, probably justified in adopting a verdict which very closely approximated Avhat the plaintiff in error showed his actual damages to be. The verdict was for a few cents less than the difference between the balance of $1,100 due according to the contract, and the amount of damages testified to by the first Avitness, and was not greatly more than the difference between that balance, with interest, and the amount of damages testified to by the last witness.\nOur conclusion, therefore, from the whole record is, that even i\u00a3 the architect\u2019s certificate was improperly admitted, its admission was in no material degree injurious to the plaintiff in error; and that the verdict was in substantial accord with what the plaintiff in error himself proved.\nThe judgment will accordingly be affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Shepard"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Hamilton & Stevenson, attorneys for plaintiff in error.",
      "Wilbur & Hauze, attorneys for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Robert G. Barrett, Jr., v. Archibald Campbell.\n1. Affirmance\u2014 Where Substantial Justice Has Been Done.\u2014 Where from the whole record it is apparent that substantial justice has been done, the court will affirm the judgment, although some evidence may have been improperly admitted.\nCovenant on Sealed Contract.\u2014Error to the Circuit Court, Cool\" County; the Hon. Edmund W. Burke, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1896.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 31, 1896.\nHamilton & Stevenson, attorneys for plaintiff in error.\nWilbur & Hauze, attorneys for defendant in error."
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  "file_name": "0330-01",
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