Asbestos Manufacturing Co. v. Burns

Citations

• 24 Pa. Super. 84
• 1903 Pa. Super. LEXIS 307

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Entire contract — Default.</p> <p>Where, on default in the performance of a contract for work to be done for an entire consideration, the pax-ty for whom it is to be done construes the contract as authoi’izing him to complete the work and deduct the cost of so doing from the contract price, notifies the other of his intention to do this, and with his acquiescexxce completes the work, he is estopped from denying the right of the other to the contract price less the cost of such completion.</p>