Bryson

Bryson v. McCone

Good Law
121 Cal. 153·1898 Cal. LEXIS 867·53 P. 637
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJune 4, 1898L. A. No. 279California2,150 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Temple, J.

This action was brought to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract to convert the iceworks of the Consumers’ Ice Company at Los Angeles into the Kitton system of ice making, to be located at Biverside, and to furnish certain materials. The work was to be done and the materials furnished according to specifications, describing with apparent minuteness what was to be done. Generally, they were to take down and remove to their shop the old machinery, and were to set the new machinery up at Biverside so as to make a complete' ice plant.

Among the things to be furnished by defendants were six new combined tanks of the Kitton system, made of Oregon ship timber, three-inch stock, surfaced on one side and two edges, and securely bolted every sixteen seconds. Each tank to contain from sixteen to twenty molds made of number twelve steel plate, double riveted and properly caulked. All seams to be coated with P. B. paint before being riveted, and the bottom of such parts-as come in contact with the wood to be coated with *155 P. B. paint. Each tank to contain two thousand eight hundred feet of pipe for the expansion of ammonia; also to have proper circulating pumps and connecting…

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