Kunkle Water & Electric, Inc. v. City of Prescott

How courts have described this case

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• noting that contracts let without required public bidding are “void, not merely voidable”
• stating fraudulent nondisclosure can occur where the defendant “purposely suppresses the truth respecting a material fact involved in the transaction”
• stating fraudulent nondisclosure can occur where the defendant “purposely suppresses the truth respecting a material fact involved in the transaction”
• plumber held liable to city for failing to disclose when asked about needed repairs on its water system that the entire system would likely need to be replaced
• misrepresentation may occur when one with superior knowledge, dealing with inexperienced persons who rely on him, purposefully suppresses the truth respecting a material fact in the transaction
• recovery under quantum meruit denied when services rendered under contract void for failing to comply with competitive bidding statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).