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Williams v. Ames

Appellate Court of Illinois
Dec 31, 1946
330 Ill. App. 242 (Ill. App. Ct. 1946)

Opinion

Gen. No. 43,636. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed December 31, 1946 Rehearing denied January 14, 1947 Released for publication January 15, 1947

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS, § 17substantial performance in good faith of building contract as sufficient for recovery. Judgment in plaintiff's favor in suit for contract price of sewer work would be affirmed, where defendant's testimony indicated that he acquiesced in plaintiff's deviation from terms of written contract, and evidence showed beyond question that there was substantial performance on plaintiff's part of contract as modified, since building contracts are to be liberally construed and substantial performance in good faith is sufficient to entitle recovery.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. VICTOR A. KULA, Judge, presiding.

Judgment affirmed. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the February term, 1946.

Charles B. Elder and Howard Ames, pro se, for appellant;

Ernest Kentwortz, for appellee.


Not to be published in full. Opinion filed December 31, 1946; rehearing denied January 14, 1947; released for publication January 15, 1947.


Summaries of

Williams v. Ames

Appellate Court of Illinois
Dec 31, 1946
330 Ill. App. 242 (Ill. App. Ct. 1946)
Case details for

Williams v. Ames

Case Details

Full title:Luther Williams, Trading as L. Williams and Son, Appellee, v. Howard Ames…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois

Date published: Dec 31, 1946

Citations

330 Ill. App. 242 (Ill. App. Ct. 1946)
70 N.E.2d 741

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