City of Indianapolis v. Twin Lakes Enterprises, Inc.

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• City which contracted with Twin Lakes to dredge a reservoir assumed responsibility to inform Twin Lakes of known site conditions
• party who has partially performed his obligations under contract may treat the contract as rescinded by the other party and recover in quantum meru-it as far as it has been performed
• award of interest is proper where amount of damages is ascertainable
• “[W]here the existence . . . of a contract or the terms thereof is the point in issue, and the evidence is conflicting or admits of more than one inference, it is for the jury to determine whether a contract in fact exists.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).