CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY v. STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Case summary
The Chicago Telephone Company claimed $899.72 for telephone service furnished to the Attorney General's office from December 22, 1913 to September 1, 1915. The State did not object, and the court awarded the full amount, following prior similar cases.
Cases cited: Greeley Carson Co. v. The State, 1 Ill. Court of Claims, 125; Sherman v. The State, 1 Ill. Court of Claims, 168; Harper, Wade, Guthrie & Co. v. The State, 2 Ill. Court of Claims, 304
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Headnotes
- CONTRACTS-when law will imply promise on part of State to pay.
CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY
v.
STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Opinion filed September 24, 1920.
CONTRACTS-when law will imply promise on part of State to pay.
This claim is similar to that of Greeley Carson v. State, 1 Ill. Court of Claims, 125, and the decision of the Court in that case, and other similar cases cited herein, governs this case.
Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General, for State.
This is a claim of the Chicago Telephone Company for telephone service furnished to the State of Illinois to the office of the Attorney General in the amount of eight hundred ninety-nine dollars and seventy-two cents ($899.72) for a period from December 22nd, 1913, to September 1st, 1915. No objection or defense of the claim is interposed by or on behalf of the State and the honorable Attorney General consents to an award herein in the sum of eight hundred and ninetynine dollars and seventy-two cents ($899.72). This Court has made awards in a number of similar cases. See Greeley Carson Co. v. The State, 1 Illinois Court of Claims, 125; Sherman v. The State, 1 Ill.
Court of Claims, 168; Harper, Wade, Guthrie & Co. v. The State, 2 Ill. Court of Claims, 304. We therefore award the claimant the sum of eight hundred ninety-nine dollars and seventy-two cents ($899.72).