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- Title: Putnam v. Albee
- Author : Maine Supreme Judicial Court
- Release Date : January 04, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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Reporter of Decisions Submitted On Briefs: February 10, 1999 ¶1 Eugene L. Putnam appeals from a 1995 judgment entered in the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Pierson, J.) awarding him $3,100 for surveying 40 acres of land owned by Gail Albee, and from a 1998 judgment (Pierson, J.) denying Putnam's motion for a new trial. We affirm the judgments. I. Background ¶2 In 1987, Putnam was engaged to survey approximately 40 acres of land owned by Albee in Prospect, Maine. Although Putnam had estimated the job at no more than $3,200, he ultimately billed Albee $8,791.12 for services rendered. When Albee refused to pay, Putnam filed an action in the District Court, later removed to Superior Court, seeking recovery for breach of contract and, in the alternative, seeking recovery of payment for services rendered.1 After a bench trial, the court found, in a written decision dated May 31, 1995, that ""no hourly rate was discussed, no firm contract price was agreed to prior to commencement of the surveying work, and . . . the parties had not reached a contractual agreement for services to be rendered prior to [Putnam] commencing work."" Therefore, the court granted judgment in favor of the defendants on count I.
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