Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 2, 1906 (Sipley v. Stickney)

Loring, J.

[After the foregoing statement of the case.] The defendant relies on the doctrine long established in this Commonwealth and last applied in Homer v. Shaw, 177 Mass. 1, where the earlier cases are collected, namely, that one who voluntarily has failed to complete a piece of work to be done under a special contract for an entire sum is without remedy.