Tutt v. Lewis's Executors

la assumpsit brought by Brooke and Tutt against Lewis’s executors, the jury found a special verdict, which stated that In the year 1777, the defendant’s testator contracted with the plaintiffs, as public contractors for the building of a magazine, as stated in the account annexed to the verdict, which begins thus: “ Dr. Colonel Fielding Lewis, deceased, (on account of the Commonwealth of Virginia,) to Richard Brooke and James Tutt.” Then follows the items, which are charged…