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50 Misc. 167

Electrical Equipment & Inspecting Co. v. Scheelenberg

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · decided 1906-03-15

<p>Contracts — Performance of contracts — necessity of performance — Independent covenants.</p> <p>In an action on a contract by which plaintiff agreed to inspect an electrical installation and defendant agreed to pay fifty dollars on presentation of certificate of such inspection, the plaintiff, in order to recover the agreed price, need only prove the inspection and presentation of the certificate, though in a letter from the plaintiff to the defendant, accompanying the contract, it was stated that the plaintiff would guarantee to furnish the defendant with advice which would save the latter ten per cent, of the lighting of his premises.</p>

Decided 1906-03-15

Newburger, J.

¶1The agreement sought to he enforced here “ provided that the plaintiff should make an inspection of the electric installation in defendant’s place of business and defendant agrees to pay plaintiff’s inspector fifty dollars on presenting certificate of inspection.”

¶2The agreement further provided that, without any additional charges, plaintiff was to check defendant’s bills for one year and bills for past.year. Accompanying this agreement was a letter from the plaintiff to the defendant-, in which it was stated that the plaintiff “ would guarantee to furnish defendant with advice which would save defendant ten per cent, of the lighting their premises” if not, the amount of subscription to be refunded.

¶3On the trial it was shown by plaintiff that the inspection *168was made and the certificate required by the contract furnished. The certificate was produced by defendant and marked as an exhibit. ETo proof was offered by defendant. The trial justice rendered judgment for the defendant.

¶4It has been held in this court, in construing similar contracts, that the plaintiff is only required to prove the inspection of the electrical installation and the presentation of the certificate to entitle him to demand payment of the contract price. See Electrical Equipment Co. v. Feuerlicht, 90 N. Y., Supp. 467; Laine v. Archibald, 92 id. 1121.

¶5Judgment must, therefore, be reversed and new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event.

¶6■ O’Gorman, J., concurs.

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