Normandy Estates Metropolitan Recreation District v. Normandy Estates Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• ignoring the general rule that ultra vires public contracts were unenforceable on equitable grounds
• a government entity may be prohibited from keeping particular property without paying the contract price because the contract was technically unenforceable
• rule applies “where property is furnished to a municipal corporation under an unenforcea- Me contract ” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).