Petillon v. Wilmarth

Citations

• 86 Ill. 418

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—contract between other parties, when admissible. Where a plaintiff had been employed by a hotel company to furnish certain gas fixtures for certain rooms in a building, according to a written contract and specifications, and the defendant, having succeeded to the use of a room as lessee, employed the plaintilf to furnish fixtures of a better quality, agreeing to pay the plaintiff the difference in value between such fixtures and such as were required in the written contract with the hotel company, it was held, that the contract and specifications with the hotel company were admissible in evidence on the part of the defendant, and that it was error to refuse the same.</p>