Bignold v. King County

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• upholding quantum meruit award in favor of contractor, even when strictly proper notice was not given, when conduct of the county required contractor to perform extra work
• rejecting the argument that the contractor had a duty to comply with the strict terms of the contract despite effectively contrary direction from the county engineer and imposing \resolute good faith\ on the county to abide by the direction of its agents
• rejecting the argument that the contractor had a duty to comply with the strict terms of the contract despite effectively contrary direction from the county engineer and imposing “resolute good faith” on the county to abide by the direction of its agents
• whether contractor should have discovered or anticipated presence of wet subsurface and large boulders a question of fact
• order to halt construction of public road was affirmative act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).