Gessler v. Graham

83 A. 429, 234 Pa. 586, 1912 Pa. LEXIS 691

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: February 5, 1912
• Docket: Appeal, No. 95
• Status: Published

Opinion

Per Curiam,

This action was on a written contract for the erection of a monument in a cemetery. The defense was that the granite used was not the kind stipulated for and that there were substantial defects in materials and workmanship. The instruction by the learned trial judge was that the plaintiffs were bound to furnish the kind of granite they agreed to furnish and that if they failed to do this, or failed to substantially comply with the contract in any respect, they could not recover; that if the granite used was the kind stipulated for but the workmanship was not perfect, but substantially complied with the contract, the plaintiff might recover the contract price less an abatement or allowance for minor defects. With this instruction the defendant had no just ground of complaint. The questions at the trial were purely those of fact and we find no error in the manner in which they were submitted to the jury.

The judgment is affirmed.