Ehdin v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““ But the contract in this case did not fix a specific sum or price for the whole work, as was the case in Moore v. Parish, supra ( 163 Ill. 93 ), but fixed one price per thousand for common brick and a different one for pressed brick; a price per cord for stone foundation, and a rate per foot for cut stone. It therefore necessitated an account of the brick of each kind and the stone which were laid in the building, and was like the contract in Grace v. Oakland Building Ass’n, supra ( 166 Ill. 637 ), in which the items of material were set out in full in the statement. There were, therefore, items to be set down of the amount of brick and stone to be charged for at the prices agreed upon in the contract, like any other account for lumber or other materials furnished, where only the price is agreed upon and the amount due is to be determined by the amount furnished. A plaintiff could not recover on such a contract without proof of the amount of each kind of brick and stone, and the statement of the balance due filed in this case was neither the account of plaintiff in error against the Boods, nor a statement of it as required by law. The claim that the statute gave the privilege in the alternative to claimant to file a ‘ statement of account or demand ’ will not avail in this case, because the demand consisted of an account and a statement of the claim would be a statement of an account.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crandall v. Lyon