Stewart v. Short

Citations

• 130 Pa. 395
• 18 A. 620
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1199

Syllabus

<p>1. Proof of part performance by the plaintiff, under a contract the existence of which is afterwards denied by the defendant, will entitle the plaintiff to recover for the part of the contract performed by him, without proof of full performance.</p> <p>2. Where the plaintiff, under an alleged contract to deliver fourteen squares of lumber, delivered eleven of them, and the defendant then denied the contract, if the existence of the contract is found by the jury, the plaintiff may recover for the lumber delivered.</p>