Sweatt v. Bonne

Citations

• 60 Wash. 18
• 110 P. 617
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1005

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Building Contracts — Architect’s Final Certificate —Change in Building — Actions—Condition Precedent. The certificate of an architect to the final completion of a building is not a condition precedent to an action by the contractor for a balance due him, as stipulated in the original contract for its construction, where the parties later agreed to add a basement and a third story, increasing the cost one-half, without any reference to the first contract or without making the architect the arbiter of the final completion of the building as changed; since such stipulations will not be extended beyond the express terms of the contract; and the contractor’s request for a final certificate did not make the same essential.</p>