ARCHITECTURAL WOODCRAFT CO. v. READ


464 A.2d 210 (1983)

ARCHITECTURAL WOODCRAFT COMPANY v. Lawrence A. READ.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Mitchell and Jed Davis, P.A. by James E. Mitchell (orally), Augusta, for plaintiff.

Defendant did not appear.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS and WATHEN, JJ.


NICHOLS, Justice.

A single set of spiral stairs leads to the complex legal issues now before us. In 1978 the Plaintiff, Architectural Woodcraft Company, a manufacturer of spiral staircases in North Vassalboro, entered a contract with the Defendant, Lawrence Read of Scotts Valley, California, for the construction of such a custom item. The Defendant paid a deposit, and, when the staircase was produced, the Plaintiff shipped it to California, C.O.D. When the staircase...

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