Sound Construction & Engineering Co. v. Green

Citations

• 89 Wash. 459
• 154 P. 791
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 704

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Building Contracts — Claim for Extras — Construction of Contract — Decision of Architect — Conclusiveness—Reasonable Difference of Opinions. Where the contract for a building made the architect the arbiter or umpire for the purpose of deciding questions that might arise on the contract, his decision that a third elevator was called for by the contract and was not an extra, in case the owner exercised the option of adding four stories to the six stories started, is not fraudulent or arbitrary, but is binding on the parties, where building experts disagreed as to the proper construction of the contract in that respect, and taking the contract and plans and specifications as they were, the minds of men may honestly and reasonably differ as to whether the third elevator was required for the ten-story building or was to be considered as an extra.</p>