91 W. Va. 161 - Hough v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Buster v. Holland · United States Blowpipe Co. v. Spencer · Gillespie v. Bailey · Mayes v. Ruffners · Central District & Printing Telegraph Co. v. Parkersburg & Ohio Valley Electric Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“The evident purpose of requiring an itemized account to be served by a sub-contractor on the owner is that the latter may be able to check up the account with reference to the material and labor furnished, and to determine therefrom whether they actually went into the building or other structure contracted for. The price of each item is not important, if the aggregate of the whole is shown, and where, as in this case, the price was not by the piece or day, but for the aggregate of particular lots of material, it would hardly be possible to segregate and apply the sum total in that way to each item of material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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