City School District v. Hugh Stubbins & Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding the functional equivalent of privity between the ultimate owner and the subcontractor when the construction company undertook construction on behalf of the ultimate owner, the ultimate owner was the intended beneficiary, and these facts were known to all parties
• completion rule barred owner’s claim against builder despite lack of privity where Urban Development Corporation contracted with defendant to build library for plaintiff
• owner’s cause of action accrues against builder at time of comple tion of performance
• “A cause of action predicated on defective construction accrues on the date of completion of the ‘actual physical work’ … even if the claimed defect is latent[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).